Hello! On PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11 ("Tiger") this happens:
make[4]: Leaving directory `/sw/build.build/gettext-tools-0.19.7-1l/ gettext-0.19.7/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
make check-TESTSmake[4]: Entering directory `/sw/build.build/gettext-tools-0.19.7-1l/ gettext-0.19.7/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests' make[5]: Entering directory `/sw/build.build/gettext-tools-0.19.7-1l/ gettext-0.19.7/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
SKIP: test-set-mode-acl.sh SKIP: test-set-mode-acl-1.sh SKIP: test-set-mode-acl-2.sh SKIP: test-copy-acl.sh SKIP: test-copy-acl-1.sh SKIP: test-copy-acl-2.sh PASS: test-alignof PASS: test-alloca-opt PASS: test-areadlink PASS: test-argmatch PASS: test-array_list PASS: test-atexit.sh PASS: test-binary-io.sh PASS: test-btowc1.sh PASS: test-btowc2.sh PASS: test-byteswap PASS: test-c-ctype PASS: test-c-strcase.sh PASS: test-c-strcasestr PASS: test-c-strstr PASS: test-canonicalize-lgpl PASS: test-cloexec PASS: test-close PASS: test-copy-file.sh PASS: test-copy-file-1.sh PASS: test-copy-file-2.sh PASS: test-ctype PASS: test-dirent PASS: test-dup PASS: test-dup2 PASS: test-environ PASS: test-errno PASS: test-fabs PASS: test-fcntl-h PASS: test-fcntl PASS: test-fdopen PASS: test-fgetc SKIP: test-file-has-acl.sh SKIP: test-file-has-acl-1.sh SKIP: test-file-has-acl-2.sh../../build-aux/test-driver: line 107: 21788 Abort trap (core dumped) "$@" >$log_file 2>&1
FAIL: test-float PASS: test-fnmatch PASS: test-fopen PASS: test-fputc PASS: test-fread PASS: test-fstat PASS: test-fstrcmp PASS: test-ftell.sh PASS: test-ftell2.sh PASS: test-ftell3 PASS: test-ftello.sh PASS: test-ftello2.sh PASS: test-ftello3 PASS: test-ftello4.sh PASS: test-fwrite PASS: test-getcwd-lgpl PASS: test-getdelim PASS: test-getdtablesize PASS: test-getline PASS: test-getopt PASS: test-gettimeofday PASS: test-iconv-h PASS: test-iconv PASS: test-ignore-value PASS: test-intprops PASS: test-inttypes PASS: test-isinf PASS: test-isnan PASS: test-isnand-nolibm PASS: test-isnand PASS: test-isnanf-nolibm PASS: test-isnanf PASS: test-isnanl-nolibm PASS: test-isnanl PASS: test-iswblank PASS: test-langinfo PASS: test-linkedhash_list PASS: test-locale../../build-aux/test-driver: line 107: 22543 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$@" >$log_file 2>&1
FAIL: test-localename PASS: test-lock PASS: test-log10 PASS: test-lseek.sh PASS: test-lstat PASS: test-malloca PASS: test-math PASS: test-mbrtowc1.sh PASS: test-mbrtowc2.sh PASS: test-mbrtowc3.sh PASS: test-mbrtowc4.sh SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-1.sh SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-2.sh SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-3.sh SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-4.sh SKIP: test-mbrtowc-w32-5.sh PASS: test-mbsinit.sh PASS: test-mbsrtowcs1.sh PASS: test-mbsrtowcs2.sh PASS: test-mbsrtowcs3.sh PASS: test-mbsrtowcs4.sh PASS: test-mbsstr1 PASS: test-mbsstr2.sh PASS: test-mbsstr3.sh PASS: test-memchr PASS: test-open PASS: test-pathmax PASS: test-pipe-filter-ii1.sh PASS: test-pipe-filter-ii2.sh PASS: test-pipe2 PASS: test-posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose PASS: test-posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2 PASS: test-posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen PASS: test-posix_spawn1 PASS: test-posix_spawn2 PASS: test-pow PASS: test-quotearg-simple PASS: test-raise PASS: test-rawmemchr PASS: test-read-file PASS: test-read PASS: test-readlink PASS: test-rmdir PASS: test-sched PASS: test-setenv PASS: test-setlocale1.sh PASS: test-setlocale2.sh PASS: test-sh-quote PASS: test-sigaction PASS: test-signal-h PASS: test-signbit PASS: test-sigpipe.sh PASS: test-sigprocmask PASS: test-sleep PASS: test-snprintf PASS: test-spawn-pipe.sh PASS: test-spawn PASS: test-stat PASS: test-stdalign PASS: test-stdbool PASS: test-stddef PASS: test-stdint PASS: test-stdio PASS: test-stdlib PASS: test-strchrnul PASS: test-strerror PASS: test-striconv PASS: test-striconveh PASS: test-striconveha PASS: test-string PASS: test-strnlen PASS: test-strstr PASS: test-strtol PASS: test-strtoul PASS: test-symlink PASS: test-sys_select PASS: test-sys_stat PASS: test-sys_time PASS: test-sys_types PASS: test-sys_wait PASS: test-term-ostream-xterm PASS: test-init.sh PASS: test-thread_self PASS: test-thread_create PASS: test-time PASS: test-tls PASS: test-u8-conv-from-enc PASS: test-ctype_space PASS: test-u8-width-linebreaks PASS: uniname/test-uninames.sh PASS: test-dup-safer PASS: test-unistd PASS: test-u16-mbtouc PASS: test-u8-check PASS: test-u8-cmp PASS: test-u8-mblen PASS: test-u8-mbtoucr PASS: test-u8-prev PASS: test-u8-strlen PASS: test-u8-uctomb PASS: test-unsetenv PASS: test-vasnprintf PASS: test-vasprintf PASS: test-verify PASS: test-verify.sh PASS: test-vsnprintf PASS: test-wchar PASS: test-wcrtomb.sh SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-1.sh SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-2.sh SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-3.sh SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-4.sh SKIP: test-wcrtomb-w32-5.sh PASS: test-wctype-h PASS: test-wcwidth PASS: test-write PASS: test-xalloc-die.sh PASS: test-xvasprintf======================================================================== ====
Testsuite summary for gettext-tools 0.19.7======================================================================== ====
# TOTAL: 196 # PASS: 175 # SKIP: 19 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 2 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0======================================================================== ====
Here is gnulib-tests/test-suite.log:
test-suite.log
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The configure script has found that ACLs are not supported on Tiger: checking sys/acl.h usability... yes checking sys/acl.h presence... yes checking for sys/acl.h... yes checking for library containing acl_get_file... none required checking for acl_get_file... yes checking for acl_get_fd... yes checking for acl_set_file... yes checking for acl_set_fd... yes checking for acl_free... yes checking for acl_from_mode... no checking for acl_from_text... yes checking for acl_delete_def_file... yes checking for acl_extended_file... no checking for acl_delete_fd_np... yes checking for acl_delete_file_np... yes checking for acl_copy_ext_native... no checking for acl_create_entry_np... yes checking for acl_to_short_text... no checking for acl_free_text... no checking for working acl_get_file... no checking for facl... no checking for getacl... no checking for aclv.h... no checking for aclx_get... no checking for statacl... no checking for aclsort... noconfigure: WARNING: libacl development library was not found or not usable.
configure: WARNING: gettext-tools will be built without ACL support. IMO invoking the ACL tests should not have happened. -- Greetings PeteCabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.