gdb debugging of test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12

2013-06-28 Thread Jack Howarth
I have attached a bzip2 compressed log of a complete walk through the failing test-vasprintf-posix on darwin12 for a build at -O0 -g. The backtrace for this failure looks like... # gdb ./test-vasprintf-posix GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1824) (Wed Feb 6 22:51:23 UTC 2013) Copyri

Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

2013-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/27/2013 08:29 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >I have identified the difference between the builds of m4 1.4.16 on > darwin11, > which doesn't exhibit the test-vasprintf-posix failure in the m4 testsuite, > and Thanks for the report. m4 1.4.16 uses an old version of gnulib; can you please ret

Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

2013-06-28 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:25:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/27/2013 08:29 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >I have identified the difference between the builds of m4 1.4.16 on > > darwin11, > > which doesn't exhibit the test-vasprintf-posix failure in the m4 testsuite, > > and > > Thanks fo

Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

2013-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/28/2013 11:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Eric, >I am not having any luck with the bootstrap working if I do... > > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git > cd m4 > bootstrap > > It fails with... > > Makefile.am:152: error: 'pkglibexecdir' is not a legitimate directory for > 'LTLIB

Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

2013-06-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 06/28/2013 07:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/28/2013 11:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> Eric, >>I am not having any luck with the bootstrap working if I do... >> >> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git >> cd m4 >> bootstrap >> >> It fails with... >> >> Makefile.am:152: error: 'pkglibe

Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

2013-06-28 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:07:18PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 06/28/2013 07:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 06/28/2013 11:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> Eric, > >>I am not having any luck with the bootstrap working if I do... > >> > >> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git > >>