Re: autoconf test failures - how to react?

[Jerker Bäck]

> 225: AC_TYPE_INT64_T        Windows NT Exception (core dumped)
> That's an interesting diagnostic.
I suspect this come from GNU sed since it disappear with BSD sed I need to
recompile sed more carefully

> 12: autoupdating AC_PREREQ             FAILED (tools.at:570)
> makes it look like the Perl system function cannot run /bin/m4 Perhaps 
> Perl cannot run system("echo foo | /bin/m4")
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for x86-interix

How to test the system command?
$ perl system("echo foo | /bin/m4")
/bin/ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
$ perl
system("echo foo | /bin/m4")
<nothing>

> I suspect that your 'diff' program is buggy, and sometimes dumps core.
> You might try substituting GNU diff.
I'm doing that right now along with a new sed

86: Define a newline        expected failure (torture.at:632)
$ cd tests/testsuite.dir/086
$ ls -l state-ls.before state-ls.after
-rw-r--r--  1 Jerker  Domänanvändare  74 May  4 15:16 state-ls.after
-rw-r--r--  1 Jerker  Domänanvändare  74 May  4 15:15 state-ls.before $ file
state-ls.before state-ls.after
state-ls.before: ascii text
state-ls.after:  ascii text
$ diff -u state-ls.before state-ls.after $ diff state-ls.before
state-ls.after

(Not so very enlightening?)