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

[Dennis Clarke]

On 8/26/19 5:51 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> 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).

It does fail everywhere with the exception of a single Debian Linux
x86_64 system.  On 32-bit Debian systems there are many many failures
on both arm and i686.


> 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).

Alrighty then I will tarball up stuff wherein there is information in
each tarball about the environment, the compiler and then the testsuite
results. Hope we can get a clean release that runs everywhere or at
least nearly everywhere.


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