Re: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Continuing with M4 branch-1.4 failures on AIX 5.3: @ ../doc/m4.texinfo:5688: Origin of test ../../m4/checks/164.regexp: stdout mismatch *** m4-tmp.569356/m4-xout Wed Aug 25 19:05:46 2010 --- m4-tmp.569356/m4-outWed Aug 25 19:05:46 2010 *** *** 1,4 ! 5 ! -1 *** Unix

Re: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3

2010-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/25/2010 01:03 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: This is the output from 'truss ./test-rmdir': [...] rmdir("test-rmdir.tdir/file/") Err#20 ENOTDIR rmdir("test-rmdir.tdir")Err#17 EEXIST rmdir("test-rmdir.tdir/file") Err#20 ENOTDIR unlink("te

Re: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:04:54PM CEST: > On 08/21/2010 02:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >- 2 gnulib test failures in M4: test-strtod, test-rmdir. > > > >I inserted one fprintf in test-strtod.c, for the "0xp" input asserting > >over 'ptr == input + 1': > > The strtod problem

Re: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3

2010-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
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. First the gnulib stuff. Notes: - 2 gnulib test failures in M4: test-strtod, test-rmdir. I inserted one fprintf in test-strtod.c, for the "0xp" input asserting o

Re: debugging M4 on AIX 5.3

2010-08-22 Thread Paul Eggert
On 08/21/2010 01:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Any hints as to what could make the tests fail when run as part of the M4 git tree and not otherwise? I don't envy you debugging that, but I have seen similar discrepancies for directory-style tests when my two source trees are in different file s