Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.65] test #217 failed on Mac OS X

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Daniel Richman wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:36:18PM CET:
> On 3/19/10 11:50 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Daniel Richman wrote on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:01:42AM CET:
> >>I just compiled Autoconf 2.65 on Mac OS X 10.5 w/ Apple's gcc-4.2.1.
> >>All tests are fine except #217 ("Substitute and define special
> >>characters") which fails. I am attaching the testsuite.log for that
> >>test.
> >We fixed something in the area with commit v2.65-35-ga2889ee, but I'm
> >not totally sure that that was it.  If you are prepared to try out the
> >git version of Autoconf, you could confirm that the issue is fixed with
> >the current master, and thus will be fixed in the next release.

> >>217. torture.at:837: testing ...
> >[...]
> >>./torture.at:919: cmp allowed-chars Zardoz
> >>--- /dev/null       2010-03-19 19:31:47.000000000 -0700
> >>+++ 
> >>/Users/danielr/Downloads/build/autoconf-2.65/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/217/stdout
> >>   2010-03-19 19:31:47.000000000 -0700
> >>@@ -0,0 +1 @@
> >>+allowed-chars Zardoz differ: char 168, line 2
> >>./torture.at:919: exit code was 1, expected 0

> No, that doesn't seem to have been it--I get the same error w/ the
> git repository version. Let me know if I can do anything else.

Hmm.  I cannot reproduce the failure on darwin 8.11.0 with current
master.  Can you please gzip the files
  tests/testsuite.dir/217/allowed-chars
  tests/testsuite.dir/217/Zardoz

and send them?  The packing is needed to avoid mailer mangling.  Thanks!
What is the locale you use, by the way?  (configure should set LANGUAGE
and LC_ALL, but maybe that is not enough?)

FWIW, the old discussion was
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.cvs/1333>
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7085>

Cheers,
Ralf