Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-14 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Bruno Haible wrote: You can also try a standalone test program, linked against the system's sprintf(), like this: === #include int main() { char buf[100]; sprintf (buf, "%Lf", -0.0L); printf ("%s\n", buf); return 0; } === The resu

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Tom G. Christensen wrote: > > Thanks, that's good so far. The interesting stuff is to look > > - what happens in line vasnprintf.c:2734, > > > Single stepping from test-vasprintf-posix:1305 does not seem to stop > there (closest is 2531) > > > - at the result in line vasnprintf.c:4635. > >

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Bruno Haible wrote: Thanks, that's good so far. The interesting stuff is to look - what happens in line vasnprintf.c:2734, > Single stepping from test-vasprintf-posix:1305 does not seem to stop there (closest is 2531) - at the result in line vasnprintf.c:4635. > Single stepping indeed m

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Bruno Haible wrote: Tom G. Christensen wrote: I see the same test failure when building m4-1.4.11 on Irix 5.3 and 6.2 regardless of compiler used. Irix 6.2 with MIPSpro 7.3.0 or GCC 4.3.0 (Indigo2 R10K): test-vasprintf-posix.c:1309: assertion failed /bin/ksh[9]: 10221 Abort(coredump) FAIL: test

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Blake wrote, citing Nelson Beebe: | | Machinetype:SGI O2 R1-SC (150 MHz);IRIX 6.5 | Configure environment: CC=c89 CXX=CC CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/includ

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Tom G. Christensen wrote: > > - Does 1.0 / -0.0 < 0 evaluate to true or false? > > - Does 1.0L / -0.0L < 0 evaluate to true or false? > true > true Thanks. That's different from what I got on some IRIX 6.5 machine, but it's consistent with what you and Nelson see. > > - At test-vaspr

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Tom G. Christensen wrote: > I see the same test failure when building m4-1.4.11 on Irix 5.3 and 6.2 > regardless of compiler used. > > Irix 6.2 with MIPSpro 7.3.0 or GCC 4.3.0 (Indigo2 R10K): > test-vasprintf-posix.c:1309: assertion failed > /bin/ksh[9]: 10221 Abort(coredump) > FAIL: test-vasprint

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote, citing Nelson Beebe: > | > | Machinetype:SGI O2 R1-SC (150 MHz);IRIX 6.5 > | Configure environment: CC=c89 CXX=CC CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include > CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-Wl,-

fseek failure output [was: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback]

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/3/2008 8:01 PM: | | | | FAIL: test-fseeko.sh | | Not much detail on the failure there. I guess we could improve | test-fseeko.c to do better line number reporting. Can you please run | test-fseeko in a debugger to see wh

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 4/3/2008 10:15 PM: | | You would not need to write this stereotypic reply if the main tests were | run before the gnulib ones: Ah, but then if an m4 test fails, the gnulib tests don't get run. I can't win. But I'll prob

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, Eric Blake wrote: > The failures are all in gnulib portability code, > and don't appear to immediately impact m4 behavior (the gnulib > replacements are more general than what m4 uses them for). Meanwhile, can > you please rerun with 'make -k' to get the full set of failures? You would

Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

2008-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Nelson H. F. Beebe on 4/3/2008 3:53 PM: | I've just built and installed m4-1.4.11 on most machines in our test | lab of about 20 flavors of Unix covering most major CPU architectures. Thanks for the feedback. The failures are all in gnu