Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-gnulib, as this is more useful to the group than just me] According to Nelson H. F. Beebe on 10/18/2008 11:47 AM: >>> does the concept in this patch fix the issue you had with m4 1.4.12? >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/200

Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > >> While Nelson Beebe's report says "Apple Mac OS X 10.x PowerPC", I > >> could not reproduce any problem on MacOS X 10.3.9.) > >> ... > I have a later O/S release, and newer compilers: > > % sw_vers > ProductName:Mac OS X > ProductVersion: 10.4.11 I see; this expl

Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-18 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks about my problem report of compiling the expression -LDBL_MIN * LDBL_MIN on Mac OS X PowerPC systems: >> ... >> While Nelson Beebe's report says "Apple Mac OS X 10.x PowerPC", I >> could not reproduce any problem on MacOS X 10.3.9.) >> ... The problem definit

Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > With the appended patch, koji ate it up: >> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886652 >> >> Great! Thanks a lot, Markus. >> >> Bruno, FYI, Markus discovered that >>

Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-17 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the appended patch, koji ate it up: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886652 > > Great! Thanks a lot, Markus. > > Bruno, FYI, Markus discovered that > an upcoming idutils release fails to compile on

Re: minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 10/17/2008 12:47 PM: > Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> With the appended patch, koji ate it up: >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886652 > > Great! Thanks a lot, Markus. > > Bruno, FYI

minus_zero-related tests fail to compile on ppc with recent gcc

2008-10-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Markus Armbruster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the appended patch, koji ate it up: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=886652 Great! Thanks a lot, Markus. Bruno, FYI, Markus discovered that an upcoming idutils release fails to compile on ppc-based systems: (details here htt