Re: next m4 snapshot

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ dropping bug-gnulib, not sure if that's a mistake ]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 04:23:16PM CEST:
> 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 tried that on AIX 5.3, see failures below.  I can try on other systems
if you ask me to, but won't do otherwise.  I can probably debug issues,
but have blissfully ignored the whole thread so far, so a hint on which
things to look at would be nice.

Thanks,
Ralf

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Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/164.regexp
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5688: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/164.regexp: stdout mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xout       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-out        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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! 5
! -1
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../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/164.regexp: stderr mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xerr       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-err        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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*** 0 ****
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+ m4:stdin:1: bad regular expression: `\<[a-z]\w+': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:2: bad regular expression: `\<Q\w*': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:4: bad regular expression: `\<Q\w*': Memory exhausted
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Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/173.patsubst
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5906: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/173.patsubst: stdout mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xout       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-out        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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! OBS: GNUs not Unix
! OBS: GNUs OBS: not OBS: Unix
  (GNUs)() (not)() (Unix)()
  (GNUs) (not) (Unix)
  GN not 
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! 
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  (GNUs) (not) (Unix)
  GN not 
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5906: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/173.patsubst: stderr mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xerr       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-err        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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*** 1 ****
--- 1,3 ----
+ m4:stdin:1: bad regular expression `^': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:2: bad regular expression `\<': Memory exhausted
  m4:stdin:6: Warning: trailing \ ignored in replacement
Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/174.patsubst
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5939: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/174.patsubst: stdout mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xout       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-out        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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  GNUS NOT UNIX
  gnus not unix
! Gnus Not Unix
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  GNUS NOT UNIX
  gnus not unix
!   
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5939: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/174.patsubst: stderr mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xerr       Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-err        Sat Jul 31 09:35:45 2010
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*** 0 ****
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+ m4:stdin:4: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:4: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:4: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
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../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/231.improved_c: stdout mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xout       Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-out        Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
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  act3,ive
  act1, ive
  active
! Act1
! Active
  _capitalize(`active')
  
! OOPSct1
! OOPSctive
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  act3,ive
  act1, ive
  active
! 
! 
  _capitalize(`active')
  
! 
! 
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:8489: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/231.improved_c: stderr mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xerr       Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-err        Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
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*** 0 ****
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+ m4:stdin:11: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:12: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:15: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:16: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/232.improved_c
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:8566: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/232.improved_c: stdout mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xout       Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-out        Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
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! Act1,Ive; Act2, Ive; Active; `Active'
  divert(`-1')
  # upcase(text)
  # downcase(text)
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! ,; ; ; `'
  divert(`-1')
  # upcase(text)
  # downcase(text)
@ ../doc/m4.texinfo:8566: Origin of test
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/232.improved_c: stderr mismatch
*** m4-tmp.454892/m4-xerr       Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
--- m4-tmp.454892/m4-err        Sat Jul 31 09:35:50 2010
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*** 0 ****
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+ m4:stdin:6: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:6: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:6: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:6: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
+ m4:stdin:6: bad regular expression: `^\(\w\)\(\w*\)': Memory exhausted
Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/233.improved_f
Checking ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/stackovf.test
Stack soft limit set to 300K
Pass

Skipped checks were:
  ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/125.changeword 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/126.changeword 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/127.changeword 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/128.changeword 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/129.changeword 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/130.changeword
Failed checks were:
  ../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/164.regexp:out 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/164.regexp:err 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/173.patsubst:out 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/173.patsubst:err 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/174.patsubst:out 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/174.patsubst:err 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/231.improved_c:out 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/231.improved_c:err 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/232.improved_c:out 
../../m4-1.4.14.6-76d1/checks/232.improved_c:err