Gnucash reports: Automake Failure

[John Ralls]

On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:44 AM, Aurimas Fišeras <aurimas at members.fsf.org> wrote:
> Line 824: $(patsubst.log: $(patsubst
> 
> recheck: all
>        @test -z "$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)" || rm -f $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
>        @set +e; $(am__set_TESTS_bases); \
>        bases=`for i in $$bases; do echo $$i; done \
>                 | $(am__list_recheck_tests)` || exit 1; \
>        log_list=`for i in $$bases; do echo $$i.log; done`; \
>        log_list=`echo $$log_list`; \
>        $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) \
>                am__force_recheck=am--force-recheck \
>                TEST_LOGS="$$log_list"; \
>        exit $$?
> $(patsubst.log: $(patsubst
>        @p='$(patsubst'; \
>        b='$(patsubst'; \
>        $(am__check_pre) $(LOG_DRIVER) --test-name "$$f" \
>        --log-file $$b.log --trs-file $$b.trs \
>        $(am__common_driver_flags) $(AM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS)
> $(LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) -- $(LOG_COMPILE) \
>        "$$tst" $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT)
> %.scm,%,$(SCM_TESTS)).log: %.scm,%,$(SCM_TESTS))
>        @p='%.scm,%,$(SCM_TESTS))'; \
>        b='%.scm,%,$(SCM_TESTS))'; \
>        $(am__check_pre) $(LOG_DRIVER) --test-name "$$f" \
>        --log-file $$b.log --trs-file $$b.trs \
>        $(am__common_driver_flags) $(AM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS)
> $(LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) -- $(LOG_COMPILE) \
>        "$$tst" $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT)


I'm using automake-13 as well, and I see the failure. The problem is explained in [1]; the "serial-tests" option is explained
in [2]. A long discussion with possible workarounds is in [3]. I tried the first work-around -- the one with m4_ifndef -- and
it didn't work for me, but simply adding serial-tests to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE does:
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.12 [serial-tests dist-bzip2])
Note that that requires automake-1.12, the first version in which serial-tests was defined. The other option discussed in
[3] is to switch to a check_local target, which won't invoke the automake test runner at all. A third would be to rewrite
the test invocation to not use patsubst.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/bug-13477-automake-1-13-breaks-when-TESTS-variable-contains-GNU-make-macros-like-sort-td19596.html
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Serial-Test-Harness.html
[3] http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/serial-tests-option-and-backwards-compatibility-td19571.html