Re: GNU make 4.3.91 on Debian 9.1

[Martin Dorey]

>> On Debian 9.1.0 / x86 (a machine with glibc 2.24)

...

>> 3 tests fail

For me on Debian 9.13 amd64 (a machine with glibc 2.24) it remains just the one failure, the one I alluded to in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63016, so it's not very new.  Indeed, output below suggests it's several years and releases old.

> Is there any possibility of seeing the output

Certainly, but I still don't want to spam the list to death with the whole thing and I didn't spot anything interesting.

make  check-local

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/martind/download/make'

cd tests && perl -w ./run_make_tests.pl -srcdir /home/martind/download/make -make ../make

Name "main::testee_version" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 598.

Name "main::testee" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 465.

Name "main::tmpfilesuffix" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 467.

Name "main::profile" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 432.

Name "main::testname" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 715.

Name "main::vos" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 432.

Name "main::osname" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 569.

Name "CORE::GLOBAL::rmdir" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 96.

Name "main::workdir" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 254.

Name "main::cwddir" used only once: possible typo at ./run_make_tests.pl line 42.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      Running tests for GNU Make on linux

                                GNU Make 4.3.91

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Clearing work...

Finding tests...

features/archives ....................................... ok     (12 passed)

features/comments ....................................... ok     (1 passed)

features/conditionals ................................... ok     (5 passed)

...

functions/warning ....................................... ok     (5 passed)

functions/wildcard ...................................... FAILED (9/10 passed)

functions/word .......................................... ok     (18 passed)

...

variables/special ....................................... ok     (6 passed)

variables/undefine ...................................... ok     (5 passed)

vms/library ............................................. N/A

1 Test in 1 Category Failed (See .diff* files in work dir for details) :-(

make[2]: *** [Makefile:1533: check-regression] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/martind/download/make'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:1268: check-am] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/martind/download/make'

make: *** [Makefile:970: check-recursive] Error 1

martind@sirius:~/download/make$ find tests/work/ | grep diff

tests/work/functions/wildcard.diff.9

martind@sirius:~/download/make$

... the contents of which was as per Bruno.

Debian make-3.81 (on x86 aka ia32 aka 32 bit) said:

(ia32)martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ echo 'all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)' | /usr/bin/make -f /dev/stdin

__ldir

(ia32)martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ ls -l

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 martind software 6 Oct 19 04:47 __ldir -> __rdir

(ia32)martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$

But Debian make-4.0 in the same directory said:

martind@zoot:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ echo 'all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)' | /usr/bin/make -f /dev/stdin

martind@zoot:~/tmp/wildcard-9$

... up to the latest git:

martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ echo 'all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)' | ~/download/make/make -f /dev/stdin

martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$

martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ echo 'all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)' | strace -f ~/download/make/make -f /dev/stdin 2>&1 | grep __ldir

read(3, "all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)\n", 4096) = 32

stat("./__ldir", 0x7ffeefaa24d0)        = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$ echo 'all: ; @echo $(wildcard __ldir)' | ltrace -f ~/download/make/make -f /dev/stdin 2>&1 | grep __ldir

...

[pid 1994] strchr("__ldir", '(')                 = nil

[pid 1994] __xstat(1, "./__ldir", 0x7ffe07b2f710) = -1

martind@sirius:~/tmp/wildcard-9$

None of which is to make light of the two failures Bruno sees that I don't.  Perhaps it's to make light of the one that isn't (far as I see) a regression.

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From: Bug-make <bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds.com@gnu.org> on behalf of Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 19:58
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>; bug-make@gnu.org <bug-make@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNU make 4.3.91 on Debian 9.1

 

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On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 01:43 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On Debian 9.1.0 / x86 (a machine with glibc 2.24), the compilation
> succeeds but 3 tests fail.

Is there any possibility of seeing the output generated during these
runs, in addition to the work directory?

The output generated often has useful information.