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  • Hash : cd995fe6
    Author : Mike Frysinger
    Date : 2022-01-24T01:02:41

    tests: clear autotools env vars
    
    Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/16714.
    
    The testsuite will try and retain these env vars when recursively
    running itself, but doesn't distinguish between vars coming from
    the env where the tests were launched.  This breaks if the user
    happens to `export ACLOCAL=alocal` before `make check`.
    
    This gets a little more confusing in that the Makefile appears to
    export these already:
    ACLOCAL = ".../automake/pre-inst-env" aclocal-1.16
    
    In reality, while those are set in the make execution environment,
    they aren't exported into the process environment, so children
    (i.e. shell processes in make rules) don't have them set.  That's
    why tests work for most people today.
    
    However, if the user has first exported "ACLOCAL" in the parent
    make environment (regardless of value), then make's value will
    reset the process environment, and then that will leak into the
    children.  That's why we see errors that look like the makefile
    env vars are leaking for these people.
    
    At any rate, the fix is to update the test harness to clear these
    vars that the test suite relies upon, especially the ones that are
    also set in the Makefiles.  That includes AUTOUPDATE even though
    it currently isn't used inside any of the tests.
    
    * t/local.mk: Add ACLOCAL, AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOMAKE, and
    AUTOUPDATE to the env unset list.
    * t/ax/runtest.in: Likewise.
    

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