Re: m4-1.4.9b on IRIX 6.5

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bruno,

On 2 Jun 2007, at 01:43, Bruno Haible wrote:

Gary V. Vaughan reported in
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/10446
that on IRIX 6.5:

test-lseek.sh fails with SIGSYS.


It's rare that program code uses a wrong 3rd argument of lseek.

a constant and symbolic third argument.

2007-06-01  Bruno Haible  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * tests/test-lseek.c (main): Disable test of errno for invalid third
        argument.
        * doc/functions/lseek.texi: Update.

This works around it by disabling the corresponding portion of the test. Gnulib is a portability library; we spend time finding workarounds for bugs which affect one platform but not another one. Programs use lseek usually with

That fixes it.  Thanks :-)

Cheers,
        Gary
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