Bugzilla Bug 217513

sys-devel/automake-1.10.1 fails tests on ppc64:

[...]
FAIL: instsh2.test
[...]
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1 of 584 tests failed
(30 tests were not run)
Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
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This does not happen with sys-devel/automake-1.10.


# ./instsh2.test 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/automake-1.10.1/work/automake-1.10.1/tests:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2.10/bin:/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2.10/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin
=== Running test ./instsh2.test
++ pwd
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/automake-1.10.1/work/automake-1.10.1/tests/testSubDir
+ set -e
+ ./install-sh
./install-sh: no input file specified.
+ ./install-sh -m 644 dest
./install-sh: no input file specified.
+ ./install-sh -d
+ ./install-sh -d d0
+ test -d d0
+ ./install-sh -d d1 d2 d3 d4
+ test -d d1
+ test -d d2
+ test -d d3
+ test -d d4
+ ./install-sh -d p1/p2/p3 p4//p5//p6//
+ test -d p1/p2/p3
+ test -d p4/p5/p6
+ :
+ ./install-sh -c -m 644 x y
+ test -f x
+ test -f y
+ ./install-sh -m 644 y z
+ test -f y
+ test -f z
+ ./install-sh -m 644 -c x z d1
+ test -f x
+ test -f z
+ test -f d1/x
+ test -f d1/z
+ ./install-sh -m 644 x z d2//
+ test -f x
+ test -f z
+ test -f d2/x
+ test -f d2/z
+ ./install-sh -t d3 -m 644 x z
+ test -f x
+ test -f z
+ test -f d3/x
+ test -f d3/z
+ ./install-sh -t d4// -m 644 x z
+ test -f x
+ test -f z
+ test -f d4/x
+ test -f d4/z
+ ./install-sh -T x d3/y
+ test -f x
+ test -f d3/y
+ ./install-sh -T x d3
./install-sh: d3: Is a directory
+ ./install-sh -T x d4//
./install-sh: d4//: Is a directory
+ echo foo
+ ./install-sh -C file d1
+ TZ=UTC0
+ touch -t 198309271735.59 d1/file
+ ./install-sh -C file d1
+ is_newest file d1/file
++ find file d1/file -newer file
+ test x = x
+ echo foo1
+ ./install-sh -C file d1
+ diff file d1/file
+ ./install-sh -C -m 444 file d1
+ test -r d1/file
+ test '!' -w d1/file
# echo $?
1

Same on alpha/ia64/sparc/x86

ive added the fix already in upstream ... the error is harmless, so it's safe
to ignore