Re: FAIL: test-vasprintf-posix failure on darwin12 cause

[Jack Howarth]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:07:18PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 07:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 06/28/2013 11:51 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >> Eric,
> >>    I am not having any luck with the bootstrap working if I do...
> >>
> >> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git
> >> cd m4
> >> bootstrap
> >>
> >> It fails with...
> >>
> >> Makefile.am:152: error: 'pkglibexecdir' is not a legitimate directory for 
> >> 'LTLIBRARIES'
> >
> > Uggh, I'll have to figure out if I can reproduce that.  Newer automake
> > is getting picker than older automake.
> >
> I think the issue is that Jack is trying to bootstrap from the master
> branch -- that is dormant, and stuck with a broken bootstrap script and
> an outdated gnulib.
> 
> Jack, after the "cd m4", you should also checkout the correct branch
> (something on the lines of 'branch-1.4') before bootstrapping.
> 
> HTH (and sorry for the curtness),
>   Stefano

Stefano,
    A fresh pull with "git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/m4 -b branch-1.4" 
properly handled the bootstrap command. Thanks.
    The resulting build after ./configure on darwin12 fails with...

error: unknown warning option '-Wclobbered' [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wcoverage-mismatch'; did you mean 
'-Wpointer-type-mismatch'?
      [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wcpp' [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wdouble-promotion'; did you mean 
'-Wdocumentation'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wformat-contains-nul' 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wfree-nonheap-object'; did you mean 
'-Wsequence-point'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Winvalid-memory-model'; did you mean 
'-Winvalid-pp-token'?
      [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wjump-misses-init'; did you mean 
'-Wimplicit-int'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wlogical-op'; did you mean '-Wlong-long'? 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wmaybe-uninitialized'; did you mean 
'-Wuninitialized'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wmissing-parameter-type' 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wmudflap'; did you mean '-Wvla'? 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wnormalized=nfc' 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wold-style-declaration'; did you mean 
'-Wout-of-line-declaration'?
      [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Woverride-init'; did you mean '-Wover-aligned'? 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wpacked-bitfield-compat'; did you mean 
'-Wobjc-literal-compare'?
      [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wpragmas' [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wsuggest-attribute=const' 
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
error: unknown warning option '-Wsuggest-attribute=format'; did you mean 
'-WNSObject-attribute'?
      [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]

unless I rerun './configure --enable-gcc-warnings' which I assume is done for 
the release tarballs.
  I can confirm that the resulting build of m4 branch-1.4 doesn't show this 
regression on darwin12
and later...

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU M4 1.4.16.36-197b
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 163
# PASS:  152
# SKIP:  11
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

So hopefully m4-1.4.17 can be released soon to eliminate this problem.
             Jack
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