Under Solaris 10U4 x86, m4's strtod test blows up. Hopefully the code
does not now rely on Linux glibc's strtod irritatingly "wrong"
behavior related to supposed "hex" values. I see that the lines which
fail include a comment which lists all of the known operating systems
in the universe exce
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.
Here is a summary of the failures:
Machinetype:DEC Alphastation 200 4/10
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According to Bob Friesenhahn on 4/3/2008 10:15 AM:
| Under Solaris 10U4 x86, m4's strtod test blows up. Hopefully the code
| does not now rely on Linux glibc's strtod irritatingly "wrong" behavior
| related to supposed "hex" values. I see that the l
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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
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Bob Friesenhahn on 4/3/2008 10:15 AM:
| Under Solaris 10U4 x86, m4's strtod test blows up. Hopefully the code
| does not now rely on Linux glibc's strtod irritatingly "wrong" behavior
| related to supposed "hex" values. I see that the lines wh
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
is not strict enough at filtering out bugs. Since all of your failures
are with hex-floats, and gnulib's version handles those, I'm guessing that
configure guessed (wrongly) that your strtod is working. Therefore, if
you want to reconfigure with 'gl_cv_func
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
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According to Bob Friesenhahn on 4/3/2008 8:14 PM:
| If I sound a bit harsh on Linux's "enhanced" strtod() it is because it
| cost me several days worth of time to work-around it. GraphicsMagick
| uses many arguments of the form NxN (in thousands of p
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According to Bruno Haible on 4/3/2008 10:15 PM:
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| 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
