Re: bugs-Please see it once

[Eric Blake]

On 10/25/2010 03:04 PM, Rajan Modi wrote:
>   ===============================
> 6 of 99 tests failed
> (11 tests were not run)
> See tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to address@hidden

Thanks for the report.  However, you omitted some crucial details.

What system is this on?  What were the six tests that failed?

> address@hidden ~/ns-allinone-2.28/m4-1.4.15
> $ make install
> git: not found

Hmm - it would be nice if we could find the source of that spurious 
message and squelch it.

> while executing make installcheck i got following errors
> ./stackovf.test: skipping test, no stack overflow support detected in m4
> Skipped checks were:
>    ./125.changeword ./126.changeword ./127.changeword ./128.changeword 
> ./129.chan
> geword ./130.changeword ./stackovf.test
> All checks successful

That was not an error, just a list of skipped tests (because you didn't 
configure with the expensive --enable-changeword) and a warning that if 
you want stack overflow detection, you should probably consider 
installing GNU libsigsegv.

But your just-built m4 tested flawlessly; which means the earlier tests 
that you reported failures for are probably signs of gnulib testsuite 
weaknesses.

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