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automake 1.14, make check failures on AIX

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From: Thomas Jahns <jahns <at> dkrz.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: automake 1.14, make check failures on AIX
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:56:46 +0200

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Hello,

I've built automake 1.14 on our AIX 6.1 system, there are some bugs creeping up.
Two (libtool7 and libtool9) are more of a libtool affair which I've filed
separately to the libtool bug list.

The others are problems with automake itself it seems.

Those which were related to t/get-sysconf.sh I already fixed.

Please find the attached patch which handles a problem with the attempt to call
lex with option --version.
AIX lex gives the following behaviour when called as lex --version:

$ lex --version
0: Warning: 1285-300 The - flag is not valid.
0: Warning: 1285-300 The e flag is not valid.
0: Warning: 1285-339 Ratfor is not supported with lex.
0: Warning: 1285-300 The s flag is not valid.
0: Warning: 1285-300 The i flag is not valid.
0: Warning: 1285-300 The o flag is not valid.

At this point the program hangs waiting for input on stdin.

When entering C-D and line-feed, lex finished:

^D
Error: 1285-340 The rules section delimiter is missing.
$

The one in t/lex-clean-cxx results from mainfoo.cc not correctly declaring yylex
as extern "C". I therefore propose to change the declaration in mainfoo.cc
accordingly. Please see the attached patch.

Unfortunately I don't understand what's tripping up t/lex-line, but I'm quite
willing to test any suggestion.

The same is true for t/tap-signal-w. No idea what's going on there.

Regards, Thomas
-- 
Thomas Jahns
DKRZ GmbH, Department: Application software

Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
Bundesstraße 45a
D-20146 Hamburg

Phone: +49-40-460094-151
Fax: +49-40-460094-270
Email: Thomas Jahns <jahns <at> dkrz.de>

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Message #8 received at 15681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: 11524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>, David Fang <fang <at> csl.cornell.edu>,
 Mostafa <mostafa_working_away <at> yahoo.com>, 15681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Automake List <automake <at> gnu.org>, Nicolas Joly <njoly <at> pasteur.fr>,
 16447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 14760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Thomas Jahns <jahns <at> dkrz.de>,
 14079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Declaring limited "bug bankruptcy" for Automake
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:49:15 +0100

tags 11524 wontfix
tags 14079 wontfix
tags 14760 wontfix
tags 16447 wontfix
tags 15681 wontfix
close 11524
close 14079
close 14760
close 15681
close 16447
stop

Due to my lack of time to dedicate to Automake, I'm declaring
a limited bug bankruptcy on old bugs, in case they deal with
testsuite-only glitches on exotic platforms, or with minor
documentation glitches.  Apologies to the original reporters.

That said, if you have time, feel free to re-run the testsuite
on the master branch and open new bugs for any failure you
still see there.  Also make sure to add as much detail as
possible (e.g., the content of the relevant files for failed
tests, rather than just the content of the .log files
associated to the tests).

Thanks, and apologies,
  Stefano

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