-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Aaron Gray on 12/16/2008 10:05 AM:
Hello Aaron, > I am getting the following error message on two 32bit Vista machines :- Thanks for the report. You didn't mention which version (including the output of 'm4 --version' would have been helpful), but... > c:\Gnuwin32\bin\m4: internal error detected; please report this bug to > <bug-m4@gnu.org <mailto:bug-m4@gnu.org>>: Aborted ...this message is only printed by 1.4.12. Did you build this yourself, or are you using it pre-compiled from the gnuwin32 folks? They have typically not had the best track record for reliable ports (although the fact that you appear to be using 1.4.12 means that they at least have modernized things recently). You may also want to try mingw or cygwin, if you like using precompiled ports. I personally don't have access to a Vista machine, so I can't reproduce the error. To get to the bottom of this, we need to know whether this happens for every invocation, regardless of the command line, or whether it is a particular input sequence that triggers the failure (and if so, can you please send us the input files). If you built m4 yourself, the next step would be attaching a debugger and getting a stack trace at the point where the abort occurs; if you are using it precompiled, then you may be better off asking the gnuwin32 people who compiled it to look into the issue. It may also be that the crash is occurring inside code added or modified by the gnuwin32 people, rather than in the pristine m4 package (although the GPL requires that they publish any modifications alongside their binary, so a link to where you downloaded from might be useful). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklIjCEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBgqQCfYQN/Vtyi4DYbOxxDJuI9xXDn tscAoKm8/rz0USz2+SkB7S4Z8D2hYx71 =3hS7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
