Re: snapshot in preparation for 1.4.13

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:48:53AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> I am hoping to release GNU M4 1.4.13 by the end of this year.  To aid me
> in that effort, I'd like some feedback on whether the current snapshot
> fixes the problems you encountered with 1.4.12, or has added any other
> regressions.
> 
I built this snapshot on IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.2 and Solaris 2.6/sparc.
Summary follows below and full logs can be found at
http://jupiterrise.com/tmp as usual.

This snapshot fails to build on IRIX 5.3:
source='btowc.c' object='btowc.o' libtool=no \
        DEPDIR=.deps depmode=sgi /bin/ksh ../build-aux/depcomp \
        cc  -I.   -I/usr/tgcware/include  -g -c -o btowc.o btowc.c
cfe: Error: btowc.c, line 37: 'WEOF' undefined; reoccurrences will not be 
reported.
   return WEOF;
 ---------^
make[4]: *** [btowc.o] Error 1

I think this is caused by the replacement wchar.h not defining WEOF when
a native wchar.h is not available.

On IRIX 6.2 things are looking better, the m4 testsuite passes all tests
however there are a few FAILs in the gnulib testsuite:
test-frexpl.c:130: assertion failed
/bin/ksh[10]: 28809 Abort(coredump)
FAIL: test-frexpl-nolibm
test-vasprintf-posix.c:532: assertion failed
/bin/ksh[10]: 28901 Abort(coredump)
FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix

On Solaris 2.6 there are no testsuite failures at all.

-tgc