Re: next snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:06:08PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I've uploaded another m4 snapshot.  It probably doesn't address any frexp
> or fseek/ftell failures in the testsuite, since debugging efforts on those
> fronts have been slow.  But it should address some compilation failures,
> and make c-stack failures less likely to occur.  If you test with
> libsigsegv, be aware that version 2.6 was just released, which fixes a bug
> present in several platforms.  Use 'make -k check' to ensure that both the
> m4 and gnulib testsuites are run.  The tests title 'test-lock' and
> 'test-tls' are expected to skip; and depending on your platform, a skip on
> 'test-c-stack' is better than failure.
> 
Full buildlogs for Irix 5.3 & 6.5 was uploaded to http://jupiterrise.com/tmp

The c-stack test stil fails on both platforms even with the new
libsigsegv.

Irix 5.3:
Segmentation fault - core dumped
FAIL: test-c-stack.sh
FAIL: test-c-stack2.sh
test-vasprintf-posix.c:1338: assertion failed
/bin/ksh[10]: 18410 Abort(coredump)
FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix

Irix 6.5:
./test-c-stack.sh[7]: 34443273 Memory fault(coredump)
FAIL: test-c-stack.sh
FAIL: test-c-stack2.sh
test-signbit.c:149: assertion failed
/bin/sh[10]: 34433260 Abort(coredump)
FAIL: test-signbit


-tgc