Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't see this show up on bug-gnulib, nor in the list queue, so I took > the liberty of resending it... > > -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:13:36 -0600 > From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users.sourceforge.net> > ... > Ok. Using the latest snapshot Eric provided me with, m4 fails to build > on Tandem NSK/OSS. Using the above, *plus* this patch: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00140.html > both 'make' and 'make check' succeed.
As Bruno mentioned in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-11/msg00092.html>, he'd rather not head down this path due to the high cost/benefit ratio. Even if M4 builds with the abovementioned patch, the approach will likely cause runtime misbehaviors -- almost certainly in coreutils, and quite possibly also in M4. Perhaps there's a better way. In <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg00069.html> I asked Matthew Woehlke why the patch was actually needed -- as it's not 100% clear to me -- and that hasn't been followed up on yet.
