Hi Eric,
2009/2/24 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>:
> According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/23/2009 7:39 PM:
>> powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-xlc80 m4 test fails: 191.sysval
>> Checking ./191.sysval
>> @ ../doc/m4.texinfo:6604: Origin of test
>> ./191.sysval: stdout mismatch
>> *** m4-tmp.766156/m4-xout Wed Jan 21 05:58:19 2009
>> --- m4-tmp.766156/m4-out Wed Jan 21 05:58:19 2009
>> ***************
>> *** 1,5 ****
>>
>> ! 2304
>> --- 1,5 ----
>>
>> ! 127
>
> Weird; that makes it look like kill(1) was not found. What does this do,
> using your just-built m4?
>
> echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([kill -9 $$ || echo "oops: $?"])' | src/m4
>
> I'm assuming that it will print oops, in which case I can modify the test
> to skip the test if kill fails.
Nope, afraid it's doing something else :(
% echo 'changequote([,])syscmd([echo "meh" && kill -9 $$ || echo
"oops: $?"])' | ./src/m4
meh
Cheers,
Gary
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