Re: diversion failure [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12]

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Guibert
Hello Eric, On Monday, August 11, 2008 at 20:57:53 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > The real problem thus seems to be that the gnulib xvasprintf-posix > module is not working around this bug in your *printf family of > functions. Could you post config.log for more details on what > ./configure determ

Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-08-08 Thread Alain Guibert
Hello Eric, Bruno, gentlemen, On Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 7:37:47 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I would appreciate some feedback before making the 1.4.12 release With pleasure. My environment: old Linux box (Intel Pentium 200 MMX, Debian bo, kernel 2.0.40, gcc 2.7.2.1, libc 5.4.33, GNU ld cygnu

Re: build problems on old Linux libc5

2008-04-21 Thread Alain Guibert
On Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 21:49:42 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Alain Guibert wrote: >>>>| FAIL: test-c-strcase.sh >> LC_ALL=fr_FR setlocale(LC_ALL, "") returns NULL > Weird. It looks as if some symbols from libintl (or its dependencies: > libico

Re: build problems on old Linux libc5

2008-04-18 Thread Alain Guibert
Hi Bruno, and much thanks for your interest, On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 0:07:10 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Thanks for reporting this (although we intend to minimize our efforts for > such extremely old platforms). These efforts are much appreciated, thanks Bruno! > The behaviour change

Re: fpurge.c error when building m4 1.4.11

2008-04-17 Thread Alain Guibert
Hello Bruno, On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 20:08:13 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Here's my latest m4 snapshot with Bruno's tentative fix in; would you > mind giving it a whirl? > http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.10b.27-14840.tar.bz2 Much thanks to you two. Another problem came in: | g

Re: fpurge.c error when building m4 1.4.11

2008-04-17 Thread Alain Guibert
Hello Eric, and thanks for your reply, On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 12:58:16 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Can you also find the implementations, as well as show us what struct > FILE looks like? >From libc 5.4.33 libio/ come attached files iofflush.c, iosetvbuf.c, ioungetc.c, iofread.c, genops.c

fpurge.c error when building m4 1.4.11

2008-04-15 Thread Alain Guibert
[crosspost bug-m4 and bug-gnulib] Hello gentlemen, On my old Linux box (Intel Pentium 200 MMX, Debian bo, kernel 2.0.40, gcc 2.7.2.1, libc 5.4.33, GNU ld cygnus-2.7.1, libiconv 1.12, pth 2.0.7, i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1, autoconf 2.61, fileutils 3.16, Make 3.75, bash 2.0.0(1)), while buildin