Re: Latest M4 fails M4 checks

2021-05-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 5/26/21 3:00 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I could not find the release tarball. It looks like the link is stale. I just now generated a newer version, here: https://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/m4-1.4.18d.4-f66e.tar.xz If you can't get developer tools running on your Mac, you can run the tools o

Re: Bug

2021-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 03:48:59PM +0400, Ilia Chachanidze wrote: > configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: present but cannot be compiled > configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: check for missing prerequisite > headers? > configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: see the Autoconf documentation > configure: W

Re: --synclines adds #line 4711 after #define xyz(abc) ...\

2021-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 06:26:42PM +, Kadlec, Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > We are using GNU m4 1.4.18: are there any plans for extensions a'la a c-mode > via > -synclines=c,'#line __line__ "__file__"' > (also defining the lead-in per file) to add line-continuation awareness and > maybe even co

Re: Enable more single-thread optimizations in gnulib code

2021-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > According to the Gnulib documentation section "Optimizations of multithreaded > code" several more optimizations can be enabled. This patch > - enables these single-threading optimizations, > - by doing so, gets rid of the warnings

Re: m4 on native Windows

2021-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Compiling a recent m4 snapshot on native Windows: > - The "make" step works fine. > - The "make check" step fails. Find attached the log. > > Essentially, there are failures around syscmd, and error messages display > the absolute

Re: Latest M4 fails M4 checks

2021-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 2:15 AM Paul Eggert wrote: > > In > on 4/20/21 4:21 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Maybe it's time to provide an updated M4. A 6 year old version of M4 > > that crashes is useless. > > It's long past time

Re: test failure on Haiku

2021-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:28:44AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > On Haiku (32-bit), compiling m4-1.4.18b+fixes works fine, but one of the tests > fails: > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Checking ../../checks/198.sysval > @ ../doc/m4.texi:6749: Origin of te