m4 on native Windows

2021-05-14 Thread Bruno Haible
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 file name of the 'm4.exe' executable. Bruno GEN public-submodule-

stackovf.test fails on Solaris 11/sparc64

2021-05-14 Thread Bruno Haible
The newest m4 snapshots don't pass all their tests on Solaris 11.3/sparc64: stackovf.test fails. This happens also when GNU libsigsegv is installed and --with-libsigsegv-prefix is given, because the c-stack.m4 autoconf test now insists in ignoring GNU libsigsegv when it thinks that the Solaris heu

m4 1.4.18b testing results

2021-05-14 Thread Bruno Haible
I tested m4-1.4.18b and subsequent tarballs (with fixes included) on some platforms. Aside from - the problems reported here and in bug-gnulib, - a couple of gnulib unit tests that fail on some of the less important platforms, the build went fine and all unit tests passed on: Linux x86_64

Re: stackovf.test fails on Solaris 11/sparc64

2021-05-14 Thread Paul Eggert
On 5/14/21 5:07 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: I won't spend any more time on fixing this Solaris-only code — when we have code that works on all platforms in GNU libsigsegv. At first I fixed this by having c-stack simply defer to libsigsegv if installed, but I found that this didn't work on gcc211 i