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Autoconf-2.68b+4MAR2012 Patches

(Problem is solved - Issue closed.  Read on if you like)

The autoconf-2.68b testsuite with patches attached to bug-autoconf,
continues to fail randomly on 64bit OSX Lion 10.7.3.

This repo contains the testsuite.dir/NNN directories
This repo contains ac268b.diff, the current patch collection used.

This data comes from about ten runs of:

  rm -rf everything
  extract tarball & cd
  configure
  make
  make -j 1 check
  cd ..
  rm -rf everything

The commonality is a diff in .before and .after env files.
Thanks for looking.


UPDATE: 7 MAR 2012 - Paul put a possible fix for this issue that caused
more tests to fail, and the test results from that run are all named
by the Run 10 commit message, directories 280-299.  The patch used has
been added to ac268b.diff for viewing.


UPDATE: 7 MAR 2012: Paul solved the issue, a known bug in grep-2.5.1
compiled by Apple for Lion.  A patch fixes all test fails.
The patch set, ac268b.diff has been updated with all the patches used.

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655339#c25