Hello!
Testing M4 on this ancient OS produces some trouble, probably because of too
old shell interpreters:
• pete 847 /\ /bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
• pete 848 /\ /bin/ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 1993-12-28 s+
• pete 853 /\ /bin/csh --version
tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03 (x86_64-apple-darwin) options
wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec
• pete 855 /\ /bin/zsh --version
zsh 4.3.9 (i386-apple-darwin10.0)
/bin/sh is /bin/bash and /bin/csh is /bin/tcsh. When the test procedure starts
to execute tests with ksh it gets stuck (from pstree):
...
\-+- 43236 macports
/bin/sh ../build-aux/test-driver --test-name test-funclib-quote.sh --log-file
test-funclib-quote.sh.log --trs-file test-funclib-quote.sh.trs --color-tests no
--collect-skipped-logs no --enable-hard-errors yes --expect-failure no --
./test-funclib-quote.sh
\-+- 43237 macports
/bin/sh ./test-funclib-quote.sh
\--- 43412 macports
/bin/ksh ./test-funclib-quote.sh
root 849 /\ lsof | ggrep test-funclib-quote.sh.log
sh 43237 macports 1w REG 14,2
1737 9519486
/opt/local/var/macports/build/m4-258498fb/work/m4-1.4.21/tests/test-funclib-quote.sh.log
sh 43237 macports 2w REG 14,2
1737 9519486
/opt/local/var/macports/build/m4-258498fb/work/m4-1.4.21/tests/test-funclib-quote.sh.log
ksh 43412 macports 1w REG 14,2
1737 9519486
/opt/local/var/macports/build/m4-258498fb/work/m4-1.4.21/tests/test-funclib-quote.sh.log
ksh 43412 macports 11w REG 14,2
1737 9519486
/opt/local/var/macports/build/m4-258498fb/work/m4-1.4.21/tests/test-funclib-quote.sh.log
I had to 'kill -1 43412' and another time when ksh was involved, in
test-option-parser.sh. Here is an excerpt from test-suite.log (already sent by
eMail):
~> func_quote expand: non-existent-2: "$empty" "${empty}"
~> func_quote expand: `command`: `$aaa $empty${bbb}`
== running in '/bin/ksh' ==
/opt/local/var/macports/build/m4-258498fb/work/m4-1.4.21/tests/test-all-shells.sh:
line 76: 43412 Hangup __GL_ALL_SHELLS_SHELL="$_G_abs_shell"
"$_G_abs_shell" "$all_shells_script" ${1+"$@"}
error: can't run in /bin/ksh
== running in '/bin/zsh' ==
~> func_quote eval: basic: a b c
~> func_quote eval: spaces: space space tab tab
~> func_quote eval: empty_arg:
~> func_quote eval: globs: * .* [a-zA-Z0-9_] ? ~
~> func_quote eval: variables: $aaa ${bbb} "${ccc} $ddd"
~> func_quote eval: exclamation-mark: $! !$ !
…
~> func_quote expand: double-quotes: " " " "$bbb"
~> func_quote expand: spaces: ${ccc}
~> func_quote expand: non-existent: $empty ${empty}
~> func_quote expand: non-existent-2: "$empty" "${empty}"
~> func_quote expand: `command`: `$aaa $empty${bbb}`
FAIL test-funclib-quote.sh (exit status: 1)
Here are snapshots from the directory:
drwxr-xr-x 11 macports wheel 60622 19 Feb 22:35 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 macports wheel 1877 19 Feb 22:35 test-option-parser.sh.log
*kill -1*
-rw-r--r-- 1 macports wheel 5858 19 Feb 23:03 test-option-parser.sh.log
You can see that I had some perseverance while testing… Build and tests were
done from the MacPorts package manager.
--
Greetings
Pete
I am concerned for you to enjoy yourselves within the limits of British decency.
– Ivor Cutler
