bug#23751: version 1.8: errors in build and testsuite

[Helmut Karlowski]

Am 12.06.2016, 08:01 Uhr, schrieb Paul Eggert:

> Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > tailor.h says in line 187:
> >
> > #if defined(ATARI) || defined(atarist)
> > #  define ASMV
> >
> > and the build fails because match.o is not in gl_LIBOBJS.
>
> Sorry, are you building on a platform that defines ATARI or atarist? If

Yes.

> not, then why are the above lines relevant? And if so, perhaps we should

ASMV is also unconditionally defined for AMIGA, so you should drop that  
too.

> drop support for the Atari, since nobody is testing it as far as I know.

It is - See for example:

http://gentoo.atariforge.org/files/app-arch/

and others.

IMHO the asm-test in configure should not be performed in these cases or  
ASMV should not be defined for atari or amiga in tailor.h.

BTW: gzip also works without ASMV on atari:

make[4]: Entering directory `/f/usr/src/gzip-1.8/tests'
0;32mPASSm: gzip-env
0;32mPASSm: helin-segv
0;32mPASSm: help-version
0;32mPASSm: hufts
0;32mPASSm: keep
0;32mPASSm: list
0;32mPASSm: memcpy-abuse
0;32mPASSm: mixed
0;32mPASSm: null-suffix-clobber
0;32mPASSm: stdin
0;32mPASSm: trailing-nul
0;32mPASSm: unpack-invalid
0;32mPASSm: z-suffix
0;32mPASSm: zdiff
0;32mPASSm: zgrep-f
0;32mPASSm: zgrep-context
0;32mPASSm: zgrep-signal
0;32mPASSm: znew-k
0;32m============================================================================m
0;32mTestsuite summary for gzip 1.8m
0;32m============================================================================m
1m# TOTAL: 18m
0;32m# PASS:  18m
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

You see another glitch: The color-codes seem hardcoded to xterm (this was  
vt52).

-Helmut

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