On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:14 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
> On AIX 7.2, in 64-bit mode, with the environment variables settings
>
> CC="xlc -q64 -qthreaded -qtls";
> CXX="xlC -q64 -qthreaded -qtls";
> AR="ar -X 64";
> NM="nm -X 64 -B";
> export CC CXX AR NM
>
> (with which I build many GNU packages successfully), I get 20 test failures:
>
> * 16 failures in category 'features/archives'.
> Error message:
> /home/haible/make-4.4.0.90/build-64-xlc/tests/../make: invalid option -- X
> Usage: make [options] [target] ...
> Options:
> ...
> Apparently the value of ${AR} or the value of ${NM} is being decomposed, and
> the -X option, meant for the 'ar' or the 'nm' program, is being passed to
> 'make'.
Thanks for your report.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?63688
> * 1 failure in category 'features/include'.
> The command 'touch -a test.foo' is being printed twice, not just once.
> This could be a bug in the AIX exec* functions, which don't properly
> separate the stdout and stderr of the parent process and child process
> in some situations. (I had seen this many years ago, in AIX 4 or AIX 5.)
>
> * 3 failures in category 'features/output-sync'.
> Error message is "timeout after 10 seconds".
Neither of these reproduces for me on aix 7.1 on powerpc.
regards, Dmitry
