New Failures in libjava Testsuite - Weird libtool Behaviour

Mon May 31 19:21:00 GMT 2004

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Today's build has these new libjava testsuite failures:
>> FAIL: TestEarlyGC compilation from source
> FAIL: TestLeak compilation from source
> FAIL: TestMultiple compilation from source
> FAIL: TestParent compilation from source
>>All of them fail because "dummy.o" is being created by
>libtool in the ".libs" sub-folder of the testsuite
>folder instead of the folder above it, *even when
>explicitly being asked to create it above it via a
>-o option* from the test script.
>>Why is the generated libtool suddenly behaving like
>this? What could have caused this behaviour? ("lt*.*"
>in the toplevel folder haven't changed in around
>4 weeks now.)
>>
Actually I've been seeing these failures for a while (at least 4 weeks). 
I just xfailed them in my tree. I've been avoiding looking into them 
because I usually end up being traumatized by anything to do with 
libtool. They don't seem to happen for everyone?
Regards
Bryce