Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.71] testsuite: 10 11 12 14 37 92 236 238 239 240 293 299 397 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 509 514 failed

[Tom Lane]

Zack Weinberg writes:
> > After digging in the archives I see that most of those failures can
> > be blamed on using Apple's ancient m4, and the tests on my other
> > machine confirm that using MacPorts' m4 instead fixes them.

> We should detect this m4 and refuse to use it. What does it print for `m4 
> --version`?

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GNU M4 1.4.6
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
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Written by Rene' Seindal.
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But per my later results, you should block 1.4.7 too if you want to
go that way.


> > But there's still these two failures:
> > 509: AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL                         FAILED (acheaders.at:9)
> > 514: AC_HEADER_STDBOOL                               FAILED 
> > (acheaders.at:14)

> Can you send us the testsuite.log for the run with only these two failures, 
> please?

See my other submission with the MacPorts-based results.

                        regards, tom lane