Re: Problem testing gettext 0.17

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Pierre wrote:
> [...]
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/tests'
> Making check in gnulib-tests
> make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make  check-recursive
> make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make  test-alloca-opt test-argmatch test-array_list test-atexit 
> test-binary-io test-byteswap test-c-ctype test-c-strcasecmp 
> test-c-strncasecmp test-c-strcasestr test-c-strstr 
> test-canonicalize-lgpl test-fcntl test-fopen test-fstrcmp test-getdelim 
> test-getline test-gettimeofday test-iconv test-linkedhash_list 
> test-locale test-localename test-lock test-malloca test-mbsstr1 
> test-mbsstr2 test-mbsstr3 test-open test-snprintf test-stdbool 
> test-stdint test-stdio test-stdlib test-strerror test-striconv 
> test-string test-sys_stat test-sys_time test-term-ostream test-tls 
> test-uninames test-unistd test-uc_width test-vasnprintf test-vasprintf 
> test-vsnprintf test-wchar test-wctype test-wcwidth test-xvasprintf
> make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. 
> -I../gnulib-lib -I./../gnulib-lib   -s -O3 -march=i686 -MT 
> test-alloca-opt.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test-alloca-opt.Tpo -c -o 
> test-alloca-opt.o test-alloca-opt.c
> mv -f .deps/test-alloca-opt.Tpo .deps/test-alloca-opt.Po
> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99  -s -O3 
> -march=i686   -o test-alloca-opt test-alloca-opt.o 
> ../gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la
> mkdir .libs
> chmod 777 .libs
> gcc -std=gnu99 -s -O3 -march=i686 -o .libs/test-alloca-opt 
> test-alloca-opt.o  ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so -L/usr/local/lib 
> -lc /usr/local/lib/libcroco-0.6.so /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so -ldl -lz 
> -lm /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -ltermcap
> creating test-alloca-opt
> gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. 
> -I../gnulib-lib -I./../gnulib-lib   -s -O3 -march=i686 -MT 
> test-argmatch.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test-argmatch.Tpo -c -o 
> test-argmatch.o test-argmatch.c
> test-argmatch.c: In function `main':
> test-argmatch.c:68: error: `INSTALLDIR' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)
> test-argmatch.c:68: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> test-argmatch.c:68: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[5]: *** [test-argmatch.o] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make[4]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-tests'
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools'
> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

It's good to show the output that is in error. But to let the developers
reproduce the problem, you also need to say
  - what parameters you passed to 'configure' and 'make',
  - on which kind of platform you observe this, and which C compiler you are
    using.

Bruno