Re: GNU M4 1.4.4b released (beta release)

[Andreas Büning]

Hello!

I tried 1.4.4b on OS/2 and found the following issues:

In checks/Makefile.in a colon is used to prepend ../src to $PATH which
doesn't work because a semicolon is needed on my system. Please, could
you use $(PATH_SEPARATOR) instead which is provided by recent autoconf
version? E.g.:

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--- old/m4-1.4.4b/checks/Makefile.in    Sat Jun 17 14:35:44 2006
+++ gnu/m4-1.4.4b/checks/Makefile.in    Sun Jun 18 21:09:34 2006
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 bindir = @bindir@
 srcdir = @srcdir@
 VPATH = @srcdir@
+PATH_SEPARATOR = @PATH_SEPARATOR@

 # Should be GNU awk, for the get-them script.
 AWK = @AWK@
@@ -48,11 +49,11 @@
 uninstall:

 check: stamp-checks
-       PATH=`pwd`/../src:$$PATH; export PATH; \
+       PATH=`pwd`"/../src$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$PATH"; export PATH; \
        cd $(srcdir) && ./check-them $(CHECKS)

 installcheck: stamp-checks
-       PATH=$(bindir):$$PATH; export PATH; \
+       PATH="$(bindir)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$PATH"; export PATH; \
        cd $(srcdir) && ./check-them $(CHECKS)

 tags:
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Test 62.sysval fails. The reason is that m4_sysval() in builtin.c
discards the lowest 8 bits of sysval but on OS/2 system() returns
a value between 0 and 255. 


Please cc all answers directly to me. Thanks.

Andreas