Re: make check fails for m4-1.4.17

[Eric Blake]

On 07/13/2016 10:14 AM, Ambrose LI wrote:
> The development version in git appears to be identical to 1.4.17.
> 
> 
> test-update-copyright.sh.log
> 
> 
> --- - Wed Jul 13 15:57:01 2016
> +++ update-copyright.test-ex-stderr   Wed Jul 13 15:57:01 2016
> @@ -1,2 +1,18 @@
> +Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked 
> by <-- HERE in m/\G(?:(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ 
> \t\r\f]*)(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright{ <-- HERE }|&copy;))?(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ 
> \t\r\f]|\n)[ \t\r\f]*)(?:(?:\d\d)?\d\d(?:,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ 
> \t\r\f]*)?|-))*((?:\d\d)?\d\d)(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ 
> \t\r\f]*)Free(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ \t\r\f]*)Software(?:[ 
> \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ \t\r\f]*)Foundation,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n)[ 
> \t\r\f]*)Inc./ at /.tmps/source.new/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/update-copyright line 
> 174, <> chunk 1.

Thanks for the report.

This has already been fixed upstream in gnulib, and will be present in
m4 the next time m4 updates the gnulib submodule.

In the meantime, you can ignore the failure, it has no bearing on
whether the just-built m4 works.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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