Re: next m4 snapshot [was: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3]

[Tom G. Christensen]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:55:02PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> [phooey - hit send too soon]
> 
> On 08/30/2010 01:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 08/21/2010 02:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>I'm trying to debug the recent regression of git branch-1.4 M4 over M4
> >>1.4.14 on AIX.
> >
> >Here's the latest snapshot tarball, if nothing goes terribly wrong, then
> >I hope to get 1.4.15 out the door this week.
> >
> >http://people.redhat.com/eblake/m4/
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/eblake/m4/m4-1.4.14.9-edf2d.tar.gz
> 

There are problems on IRIX 6.5(.30).

It fails to build with gcc 4.3.1 (and 4.5.0):
gcc -std=gnu99  -I.     -g -O2 -MT printf-args.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/printf-args.Tpo -c -o
 printf-args.o printf-args.c
In file included from /usr/include/wchar.h:9,
                 from ./wchar.h:71,
                 from printf-args.h:42,
                 from printf-args.c:30:
./wctype.h:585: error: static declaration of 'iswblank' follows non-static 
declaration
gmake[3]: *** [printf-args.o] Error 1

Building with MIPSpro works but there are testsuite failures:
$ ./test-strtod
test-strtod.c:377: assertion failed
Abort (core dumped)

$ ./test-update-copyright.sh
--- -   2010-08-31 22:20:22.990686000 +0200
+++ update-copyright.test-ex-stderr     2010-08-31 22:20:22.981772600 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-update-copyright.test-ex.4: warning: FSF copyright statement not found
-update-copyright.test-ex.5: warning: FSF copyright statement not found
+./test-update-copyright.sh[95]: update-copyright:  not found

Adding build-aux to the PATH and using nekoware perl this test passes.

$ ./test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh
non-numeric argument
init.sh: failed test: Cannot create directory 
"/usr/people/tgc/tmp/m4-1.4.14.9-edf2d/tests/gt-init.sh.": File exists
Cannot create directory "vc-cvs": File exists
Cannot create directory "vc-cvs": File exists

Full logs are available here:
http://jupiterrise.com/tmp/m4-1.4.14.9-edf2d-irix65-gcc431.log
http://jupiterrise.com/tmp/m4-1.4.14.9-edf2d-irix65-sgicc.log

-tgc