Re: [PATCH] bootstrap accepts --gnulib-srcdir=SRCDIR

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
[redirecting to m4-patches; replies can drop bug-m4] According to Giuseppe Scrivano on 2/27/2010 2:48 PM: > Hi, > > I saw `bootstrap' doesn't accept --gnulib-srcdir as it is already done > by other projects using gnulib. It doesn't add a new feature as it can > be already done specifying GNULIB_

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
According to Johan van Selst on 2/28/2010 3:12 PM: > Greetings, > > I tested the latest m4 on FreeBSD and found that with this installed, I > cannot compile Apache or PHP programs anymore. The problem seems to be > with esyscmd changes in the latest release (1.4.13 works fine). > The typical error

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Johan van Selst
Eric Blake wrote: > Thanks for the report. Can you run the equivalent of strace to see what > is being attempted when exec'ing the child process? Or maybe this is the > case of a spurious errno value being left over from some earlier syscall. Sure, it's now up on http://mud.stack.nl/~johans/193-

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 11:02 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> Thanks for the report. Can you run the equivalent of strace to see what >> is being attempted when exec'ing the child process? Or maybe this is the >> case of a spurious errno value being left over from some earlier syscall

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Johan van Selst
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 11:02 AM: > > Sure, it's now up on http://mud.stack.nl/~johans/193-ktrace.txt > > (output from the test in checks/193.esyscmd) > Actually, it looks like you posted the trace for 007.command_li Oops, I was rather hurried when posting this

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 2:55 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Johan van Selst on 3/1/2010 11:02 AM: >>> Sure, it's now up on http://mud.stack.nl/~johans/193-ktrace.txt >>> (output from the test in checks/193.esyscmd) >> Actually, it looks like you posted

Re: m4 1.4.14 esyscmd problems on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Johan van Selst
Eric Blake wrote: > Johan, can you find the portion in config.log that shows whether the > native posix_spawn was deemed acceptable or buggy? It looks acceptable: checking for posix_spawn... yes checking whether posix_spawn works... yes checking whether posix_spawn is declared without a macro.