Gnucash reports: Automake Failure

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> 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

I would suggest we change the TESTS variable so it does not contain a
GNU make macro.

-derek

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