Re: m4-1.4.12 make check throws many errors

[Eric Blake]

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According to Dennis Clarke on 3/2/2009 10:12 AM:
> On Solaris 10 Update 6 with latest kernel patches. Sun Studio 12 compiler
> used here. I used GNU make and all other tools were vendor supplied.
> 
> I am attempting to make a 64-bit AMD64 executable here.
> 
> @ ../doc/m4.texinfo:1891: Origin of test
> ../../../m4-1.4.12/checks/032.arguments: stderr mismatch
> --- m4-tmp.27760/m4-xerr        Mon Mar  2 17:11:04 2009
> +++ m4-tmp.27760/m4-err Mon Mar  2 17:11:04 2009
> @@ -1,2 +1,1 @@
> -m4:stdin:1: Warning: definition of `foo' contains sequence `$001'
> -m4:stdin:1: Warning: definition of `foo' contains sequence `${1}'
> +m4: internal error detected; please report this bug to <address@hidden>:
> Segmentation fault

All of your failures look like they involve regular expressions.  I'm
guessing that there is some bug present in 1.4.12 where the regex engine
was not prepared for a 64-bit machine.

There have been upstream fixes to regex.c in the meantime.  Would you mind
repeating your tests on a more recent snapshot, to see if we have fixed
things, or need to do further investigation?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2009-02/msg00011.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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