Re: final snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 07:23:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I've uploaded another m4 snapshot.  It probably doesn't address any
> fseek/ftell failures in the testsuite, since debugging efforts on those
> fronts have been slow.  But it should address some c-stack failures, and
> adds some sanity when accidentally passing a directory as an input file.
> 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.
> 
I gave this a run on Irix 5.3, 6.2 & 6.5 using SGI compilers.
Things look good and the m4 testsuite passes on all 3 platforms.

In the gnulib testsuite there are no more problems with c-stack and
vasprintf-posix.
On Irix 5.3 it skips test-cstack2.sh because it wants libsigsegv for full
c-stack functionality and I did not test with that
(Irix really needs libsigsegv 2.7 which is not yet released).

On Irix 6.x gnulib test-signbit still fails:
test-signbit.c:149: assertion failed
/bin/ksh[10]: 18432 Abort(coredump)
FAIL: test-signbit

-tgc