Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.71] testsuite: 254 255 ... catastrophic failure

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, at 6:28 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2023-11-29 14:29, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, at 9:32 AM, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for autoconf wrote:
> [...]
>>> --- ./at_config_vars-state-env-expected 2023-11-29 09:14:04.189405540 -0500
>>> +++ ./at_config_vars-state-env.after    2023-11-29 09:14:04.189405540 -0500
>>> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>>>   PWD=/root/autoconf-2.71/tests/testsuite.dir/254
>>>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>>>   SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix
>>> -SHLVL=2
>>> +SHLVL=3
>>>   TAR_OPTIONS='--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner'
>>>   TERM=xterm-256color
>>>   UID=0
>> 
>> Changes in the value of SHLVL are supposed to be ignored.
>
> No current Autoconf release includes the fix[1] to ignore SHLVL in the 
> test suite.

This is what has finally pushed me to do an official beta release :-)

zw