GNU bug report logs - #59905
3.8: test suite is failing

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 14:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 3.8

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 59905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Adam Sampson <ats <at> offog.org>
Cc: 59905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59905: 3.8: test suite is failing
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:12:12 +0100

On Jan 16 2023, Adam Sampson wrote:

> It turns out this is a change in GNU Make 4.3.92 and later -- make does
> signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) for its own purposes, and its child processes
> inherit that. With make 4.3, the tests work; with 4.4, this one fails.

This is a bug in make 4.4 and will be fixed in 4.4.1.

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