Re: linkage problem with m4 1.4.11 on AIX 6.1

[Eric Blake]

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According to Rainer Tammer on 4/24/2008 10:46 AM:
| Hello Eric,
|
| Eric Blake wrote:
|> According to Rainer Tammer on 4/24/2008 5:59 AM:
|> | Hello,
|> | on AIX 6.1 two objects are missing from the libm4.a.
|> |
|> [...]
|>
|> |
|> | Any ideas ?
|>
|> Can you also post the config.log?
|>
|
| I am currently trying to recreate the problem. The problem with the
| missing object occurred
| during an rpm build operation on AIX 6.1. If I build the source in a
| separate directory everything is OK ...
| So I have to admit that this was probably a false alarm. I am very sorry
| for your inconvenience.

That's all right; I'm glad to hear it doesn't seem to be a real bug.

|
| I fear that I will have to rework my spec file :-((
|
| So far the only "problem" is test 174.sysval and this is no real error.
| The AIX ksh has a buildin kill command.
|
| Regular built-in command descriptions for the Korn shell or POSIX shell

Good to know.  At this point, replies can drop bug-gnulib.  Is there also
a standalone kill(1) provided somewhere on PATH?  What do the following do?

$ sh -c 'kill $$'; echo $?
$ sh -c 'env kill $$'; echo $?
$ sh -c 'kill -9 $$'; echo $?
$ sh -c 'env kill -9 $$'; echo $?

If you still want to improve  the behavior of 174.sysval, it might be
worth grabbing an strace (or whatever similar mechanism AIX provides) to
see what system calls the following two m4 runs use:

$ echo 'syscmd(kill -9 $$)sysval' > file
$ m4 file
$ m4 -Dsyscmd='esyscmd($@)' file

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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