On Apr 25, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org
<mailto:z...@owlfolio.org>> wrote:
> I *think* this is the same problem as
> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110492
> <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110492> : current Autoconf doesn't work
> correctly with the (rather old) version of GNU M4 that ships with MacOS.
> Please try installing a current version of GNU M4 in your PATH and then retry
> the build and testsuite.
Synopsis:
That cleared up all but two of the failed tests. 509 and 514 still report
FAILED.
I’m not sure whether I should submit that as a new problem, or if this thread
will (eventually) try to resolve it.
Detail:
I installed m4 version 1.4.19, then did “make uninstall” for autoconf, deleted
the autoconf-2.71 tree, and copied autoconf-2.71 fresh from the tarball.
Then I did
./configure —prefix=something
make
make check
Comparing log files from my previous install attempt (when I have the apple
version of m4) with this one, I notice that configure had reported a warning
about m4 that the new install attempt did not ("WARNING: the version of M4 that
was found does not support -g”).
“make check” takes nearly a half hour. So doing a binary search over different
versions of m4 would take a while. My hypothesis is that I can just look for
that warning from configure until I zero in on the version that makes that
disappear, then try make and make check with that version.
Still, though, I need to resolve the failures of 509 and 514 before I proceed.
I didn’t see any easy way to search the same bug database (that had
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110492
<https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110492>) to see if I could find info about
509 and 514.
Thanks,
Bob H
