Re: next m4 snapshot [was: M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA]

[Rainer Tammer]

Hello,
just to be sure I checked the glib from M4 1.4.14 again. All test were
successful:

# gmake -k -C checks check
gmake: Entering directory `/daten/source/m4-1.4.14/checks'
PATH=`pwd`/../src":"$PATH; export PATH; \
./check-them -I ./../examples ./*[0-9][0-9][0-9].* ./stackovf.test
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.14
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.
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Stack soft limit set to 300K
Pass

Skipped checks were:
  ./125.changeword ./126.changeword ./127.changeword ./128.changeword
./129.changeword ./130.changeword
All checks successful
gmake: Leaving directory `/daten/source/m4-1.4.14/checks'


The only failing M4 test is:

/bin/sh: 8126556 IOT/Abort trap(coredump)
FAIL: test-strtod


Bye
  Rainer

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 05:03 AM, Rainer Tammer wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> I now have tested M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA. I have replaced
>> build-aux/config.guess with the new AIX 7.1 aware version.
>>     
> Now fixed in gnulib, and therefore in my current m4 snapshot:
>
> Grab m4-1.4.14.6-76d1 from http://people.redhat.com/eblake/m4/
>
> I'm hoping that all the strtod issues have been resolved, but nothing
> has been done on the regex issues, so that still remains something to
> resolve.
>
>   
>> I also have
>> changed m4/posix_spawn.m4 so that
>> "gl_cv_func_posix_spawn_works="guessing yes";;" is set. According to my
>> tests the old POSIX spawn problem (which was present in early AIX
>> 5.3/6.1 versions) is gone.
>>     
> Your response to my previous 1.4.14.6-ffa0 snapshot didn't show any
> problems with posix_spawn, so I think we've nailed that one.
>
>