2 test failures for m4-1.4.10 on NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! I just tried the self tests of m4-1.4.10 on NetBSD-4.99.23/amd64. Two failed: test-frexpl.c:167: assertion failed [1] Abort trap (core dumped) EXEEXT="" EXEEXT... FAIL: test-frexpl ... test-printf-frexpl.c:103: assertion failed [1] Abort trap (core dumped) EXEEXT="" EXEEXT... FAIL: test-pr

Re: 2 test failures for m4-1.4.10 on NetBSD

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:16:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Thomas Klausner on 7/19/2007 4:07 PM: > > Hi! > > > > I just tried the self tests of m4-1.4.10 on NetBSD-4.99.23/amd64. > > Two failed: > > test-frexpl.c:167: assertion failed > >

m4-1.4.10 breaking autoconf?

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! After the m4 update in pkgsrc there have been reports of breakage in packages where autoconf is run. In pkgsrc this affects e.g. mng, firefox, thunderbird and others. In the case of mng, the output looks like this: # /bin/rm -f configure.in && /bin/ln -sf makefiles/configure.in .; /bin/rm -f

Re: m4-1.4.10 breaking autoconf?

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Thanks. I need at least one more piece of information - could you send > the config.log created when you built m4-1.4.10 from the tarball? Sure, attached. Hope it helps, Thomas config.log.bz2 Description: Binary data __

Re: m4-1.4.10 breaking autoconf?

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:27:04PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Nevermind - I finally figured it out! POSIX states "a ``file position > indicator'' associated with the stream is positioned at the start (byte > number 0) of the file, unless the file is opened with append mode, in > which case it is i

m4-1.4.11: assert failure in two self tests on NetBSD

2008-04-10 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! m4-1.4.11 fails two selftests on NetBSD-4.99.48/amd64. The first one is in test-frexpl: # gdb test-frexpl test-frexpl.core GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or dis

Re: m4-1.4.11: assert failure in two self tests on NetBSD

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi Eric! Thanks for your reply. > Both of these failures are in the gnulib tests, hence I'm adding > bug-gnulib. Could you please also run 'make -k check' to see if the > M4-specific tests pass? Sure. Skipped checks were: ./109.changeword ./110.changeword ./111.changeword ./112.changeword .

Re: m4-1.4.11: assert failure in two self tests on NetBSD

2008-04-12 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi Bruno! Thanks for the quick reply! On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Klausner reported: > > | m4-1.4.11 fails two selftests on NetBSD-4.99.48/amd64. > > | The first one is in test-frexpl: > > | > > | # gdb test-

m4-1.4.11: build failure on DragonFly

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! I don't have a DragonFly box myself, but apparently m4-1.4.11 doesn't compile on it. One of the main DragonFly developers provided a patch, see http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2008-04/msg00044.html The patch is a patch against pkgsrc, I'll attach the resulting "real" patch aga

Fwd: Error building m4 on Solaris 10

2008-04-25 Thread Thomas Klausner
Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido reported a problem building m4 (I assume 1.4.11) on Solaris 10. Here's his mail: - Forwarded message from Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:40:16 -0500 From: Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [E

Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:37:47AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I have released a new snapshot from branch-1.4, and hope to release it as > M4 1.4.12 in the near future. This should fix many of the complaints > about strtod and other test failures that were reported against 1.4.11. > However, it als

Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-08-23 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi again! Btw, did I mention last time that m4 tests work, but skip a few? Skipped checks were: ./114.changeword ./115.changeword ./116.changeword ./117.changeword ./118.chan geword ./119.changeword All checks successful > According to Thomas Klausner on 8/14/2008 1:21 PM: > > One f

Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-08-23 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:06:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Expected; use './configure --enable-changeword' if you want that feature > enabled in m4, with the caveat that it will be withdrawn in m4 2.0 (in > favor of a more powerful and faster changesyntax feature). Ok, I'll leave it disabled th

Re: next snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-09-06 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:06:08PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I've uploaded another m4 snapshot. It probably doesn't address any frexp > or fseek/ftell failures in the testsuite, since debugging efforts on those > fronts have been slow. But it should address some compilation failures, > and make

Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

2008-09-21 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:53:49AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm committing this. It looks like your flavor of NetBSD now handles > denormals, but still fails on negative zero. I asked around a bit -- this was a regression. NetBSD has two versions of this code around, and recently switched back

Fwd: Building m4 fails under Interix-3.5

2008-10-23 Thread Thomas Klausner
Aleksey Cheusov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has reported a problem with building m4-1.4.12 on Interix. Here's his mail: - Forwarded message from Aleksey Cheusov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:28:24 +0300 From: Aleksey Cheusov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bui

Re: Fwd: Building m4 fails under Interix-3.5

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:23:03AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > But in this case, there is a cheap workaround that I can apply even without > testing. That indeed fixes the problem, reports Aleksey. Thanks! Thomas