Re: GNU make 4.2.90 rc passes testsuite no where except Linux x86_64 thus far

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 17:42 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Well I am getting consistent results here on a number of systems
> across various OS and platform architectures.  A few of them fail in
> the test functions/wildcard and I see :

This one (the __ldir test) is exactly the one I was referring to as
failing on MacOS: it's a bug in handling symlinks in the older
glob.c/fnmatch.c implementation we have.  This bug has been fixed in
GNU libc (and the later gnulib implementations).

This doesn't fail on GNU/Linux systems, if they choose the system GNU
libc (and it has this bug fixed--older systems may not).

> Debian Linux "sid" on i686 with gcc 9.2.0 throws a ton of failures :

I'd be interested to see the diffs generated on these other systems. 
If convenient, please tar them up and send them to me directly (no need
to send them to the list).

Cheers!