Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.72e] testsuite: 11 40 41 45 280 281 282 286 287 failed on OS X 10.4

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> G5 running OS X 10.4.11, m4 included with OS is too old (1.4.2), so GNU 
> m4 1.4.19 was used.

Thanks for all the testing.  The failure of test #11 is a known, minor
issue, see <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110986>.

>    40: tools.at:1462      autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include
>    41: tools.at:1497      autom4te preselections
>    45: tools.at:1708      autotools and relative TMPDIR
>   280: torture.at:1456    Configuring subdirectories
>   281: torture.at:1584    Deep Package
>   282: torture.at:1723    Non-Autoconf AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS
>   286: torture.at:1874    Unusual Automake input files
>   287: torture.at:1909    Specific warnings options for autoreconf

These I have not seen before, however...

> aclocal: unrecognized option -- 
> `--system-acdir=/Users/sme/tmp/autoconf-2.72e/tests/testsuite.dir/040/empty'

This means your automake, version 1.6.3, is too old.  The current version is 1.16.5.
Please try installing that version and see if that makes the above failures go away.

Thanks,
zw