Re: M4 make check fail on WD Mybook World ARM processor

[Eric Blake]

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According to Thomas Black on 4/22/2009 3:23 PM:
> Actually m4-1.4.13 made it worse.  I'll stick with the prior for now.
> Here's  the .13 error:
> @ ../doc/m4.texinfo:8563: Origin of test
> ./230.improved_f: stderr mismatch
> --- m4-tmp.13991/m4-xerr        2009-04-22 15:57:22 -0500
> +++ m4-tmp.13991/m4-err 2009-04-22 15:57:22 -0500
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -m4:stdin:6: Warning: excess arguments to builtin `divnum' ignored
> +stdin:6: Warning: excess arguments to builtin `divnum' ignored

Hmm.  What happened to argv[0] in this message?

>  m4:stdin:6: fatal error: inside wrapped text
> Checking ./stackovf.test
> Stack soft limit set to 300K
> Pass
> 
> Skipped checks were:
>   ./122.changeword ./123.changeword ./124.changeword ./125.changeword
> ./126.changeword ./127.changeword
> Failed checks were:
>   ./018.macro_argu:err ./021.macro_argu:err ./033.arguments:err
> ./050.defn:err ./051.defn:err ./055.indir:err ./056.indir:err
> ./058.builtin:err ./059.builtin:err ./062.ifdef:err ./063.ifelse:err
> ./066.ifelse:err ./092.dumpdef:err ./094.trace:err ./095.trace:err
> ./101.debug_outp:err ./103.dnl:err ./104.dnl:err ./114.changequot:err
> ./115.changequot:err ./121.changecom:err ./133.m4wrap:err
> ./134.include:err ./160.index_macr:err ./162.regexp:err
> ./163.regexp:err ./165.substr:err ./169.translit:err
> ./170.patsubst:err ./174.patsubst:err ./177.format:err ./178.incr:err
> ./179.eval:err ./180.eval:err ./181.eval:err ./182.eval:err
> ./184.eval:err ./195.mkstemp:err ./209.improved_f:err
> ./210.improved_f:err ./230.improved_f:err

Can you please also show these failures?  Although I suspect they are all
related to a botched expectation for argv[0].

Can you please also run 'make -k check', so that we also see test results
for the gnulib unit tests?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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