Re: Make check fails inside intl/ directory in 2.2.4

[Wolfram Gloger]

> After successful compilation of glibc2.2.4 I tried running the make check
> test suite. The process runs well until it reaches the intl/ directory, 
> where
> it fails with the following message:
> 
> geko:/home/marco/glibc2/glibc-2.2.4/intl> make check
> /bin/sh -e tst-gettext.sh ../ ../intl/ \
> tst-gettext.mtrace
> msgfmt: ../iconv/skeleton.c:302: gconv: Assertion `outbufstart == ((void 
> *)0)' failed.
> tst-gettext.sh: line 56: 28348 Aborted                 (core dumped) 
> msgfmt -o 
> ${objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo 
> ../po/de.po
> make: *** [tst-gettext.out] Error 134

I got this too, when I was still running an installed glibc-2.1.x.
You could try "make install" before "make check", or the appended
patch (which might effectively disable the tests in question,
therefore I'm _not_ proposing the patch for glibc).

Regards,
Wolfram.

--- libc/intl/tst-gettext.sh    Fri Jul  6 06:54:53 2001
+++ libc.wg/intl/tst-gettext.sh Wed Dec 26 23:11:54 2001
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
 objpfx=$2
 malloc_trace=$3
 
-GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
-export GCONV_PATH
 LOCPATH=${common_objpfx}localedata
 export LOCPATH
 LC_ALL=C
@@ -56,6 +54,9 @@
        ../po/de.po
 msgfmt -o ${objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_TIME/existing-time-domain.mo \
        ../po/de.po
+
+GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
+export GCONV_PATH
 
 # Now run the test.
 MALLOC_TRACE=$malloc_trace LOCPATH=${objpfx}localedir:$LOCPATH \
--- libc/intl/tst-translit.sh   Fri Jul  6 06:54:53 2001
+++ libc.wg/intl/tst-translit.sh        Wed Dec 26 23:20:30 2001
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 common_objpfx=$1
 objpfx=$2
 
-GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
-export GCONV_PATH
 LOCPATH=${common_objpfx}localedata
 export LOCPATH
 LC_ALL=C
@@ -32,6 +30,8 @@
 msgfmt -o ${objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/translit.mo \
        translit.po
 
+GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
+export GCONV_PATH
 
 ${common_objpfx}elf/ld.so --library-path $common_objpfx \
 ${objpfx}tst-translit > ${objpfx}tst-translit.out ${objpfx}domaindir
--- libc/intl/tst-codeset.sh    Fri Jul  6 06:54:53 2001
+++ libc.wg/intl/tst-codeset.sh Wed Dec 26 23:21:34 2001
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 common_objpfx=$1
 objpfx=$2
 
-GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
-export GCONV_PATH
 LOCPATH=${common_objpfx}localedata
 export LOCPATH
 LC_ALL=C
@@ -36,6 +34,9 @@
 test -d ${objpfx}domaindir/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES || mkdir 
${objpfx}domaindir/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES
 # Populate them.
 msgfmt -o ${objpfx}domaindir/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/codeset.mo tstcodeset.po
+
+GCONV_PATH=${common_objpfx}iconvdata
+export GCONV_PATH
 
 ${common_objpfx}elf/ld.so --library-path $common_objpfx \
 ${objpfx}tst-codeset > ${objpfx}tst-codeset.out