On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, at 2:00 PM, Bob Harris wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org 
> <mailto:z...@owlfolio.org>> wrote:
>> Please try installing a current version of GNU M4 in your PATH
>> and then retry the build and testsuite.
>
> That cleared up all but two of the failed tests. 509 and 514 still 
> report FAILED.
>
> I’m not sure whether I should submit that as a new problem, or if this 
> thread will (eventually) try to resolve it.

I don't know if that's the same problem or not.  Can you send us the logfile?

> “make check” takes nearly a half hour. So doing a binary search over 
> different versions of m4 would take a while.

"make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j4" may be substantially faster (experiment with
the number).  Unfortunately, "make -j4 check" doesn't parallelize the testsuite 
itself.

zr

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