Re: 'make test' für gettext 0.17 scheitert

[Bruno Haible]

Philipp Thomas wrote:
> it seems to be related to the non-released
> gcc 4.3.0, If I compile gettext with gcc 4.2.1  msgmerge-compendium-5
> passes. So I'm going to open a bug with our gcc cracks and let them locate
> the reason.

Two areas come to mind:
  1) msgmerge relies on IEEE 'double' computations without excess precision.
     The code has provisions for ensuring this. But if you pass some extreme
     speed-for-float-operations options, you might defeat these provisions.
  2) msgmerge is linked with libgomp, i.e. it uses the OpenMP parallelization
     features. Something could also be broken in this area.

You can determine whether it's 1) or 2) by running the testsuite with
OMP_NUM_THREADS=1, or by configuring gettext with --disable-openmp.

Bruno