Re: FAIL: test-strtod

[Dennis Clarke]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Dennis Clarke on 7/30/2008 9:17 AM:
> |> Somehow, the test needs to be made more robust; we either need more m4
> |> magic to determine if -lm is necessary for fabs, or a gnulib replacement
> |> for fabs that works without requiring libm, or a way to rewrite that test
> |> to not need fabs.  In the meantime, feel free to manually add -lm to the
> |> link line for that particular test program.
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> | did that ... but don't know what to do with it.
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> Great - you compiled it.  Now run it.  If test-strtod exits with 0 status
> and no error messages, then we've solved the link error.  If it still
> complains of any assertion failures, then look at which lines it is
> complaining about, and report it both back here and to Sun.  And if you'd
> like, I can build another m4 snapshot using today's gnulib patch.
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by the way .. the discussion continues over at OpenSolaris.org :

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-August/042340.html

Dennis