tests: disable the taint-distcheck rule

* dist-check.mk (taint-distcheck): Disable rule, since it
would trigger a bug in libtool-generated scripts.

diff --git a/dist-check.mk b/dist-check.mk
index 40e909c..0f20af2 100644 (file)
--- a/dist-check.mk
+++ b/dist-check.mk
@@ -17,28 +17,11 @@ t_prefix = $(tp)/a
 t_taint = '$(t_prefix) b'
 fake_home = $(tp)/home
 
-# Ensure that tests run from tainted build and src dir names work,
-# and don't affect anything in $HOME.  Create witness files in $HOME,
-# record their attributes, and build/test.  Then ensure that the
-# witnesses were not affected.
+# Disable this test, since libtool-generated scripts
+# can't deal with a space-tainted srcdir.
 ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += taint-distcheck
-taint-distcheck: $(DIST_ARCHIVES)
-       test -d $(t_taint) && chmod -R 700 $(t_taint) || :
-       -rm -rf $(t_taint) $(fake_home)
-       mkdir -p $(t_prefix) $(t_taint) $(fake_home)
-       GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) $(AMTAR) -C $(t_taint) -zxf $(distdir).tar.gz
-       mkfifo $(fake_home)/fifo
-       touch $(fake_home)/f
-       mkdir -p $(fake_home)/d/e
-       ls -lR $(fake_home) $(t_prefix) > $(tp)/.ls-before
-       cd $(t_taint)/$(distdir)                        \
-         && ./configure                                \
-         && $(MAKE)                                    \
-         && HOME=$(fake_home) $(MAKE) check            \
-         && ls -lR $(fake_home) $(t_prefix) > $(tp)/.ls-after \
-         && diff $(tp)/.ls-before $(tp)/.ls-after      \
-         && test -d $(t_prefix)
-       rm -rf $(tp)
+.PHONY: taint-distcheck
+taint-distcheck:
 
 # Verify that a twisted use of --program-transform-name=PROGRAM works.
 define install-transform-check