Hi Bahram, I added [email protected] back to CC. Your email client likely has a "Reply-All" button instead of "Reply", which should be used to not remove the list from your response.
Bahram Alinezhad wrote: > Really, as long as we have no problem compiling and installing source > packages, failure of some tests shouldn't be a problem. I am not a > programmer, just write some shell scripts. I always skipped "make > check" or "make test" in my life. Just reading documents of GMP, > MPFR, M4 and MPC, we see that this phase of compile is important for > these packages. Chatting with some AI, I learned that failure of some > tests does not necessarily mean a hardware error or serious lack of > program sanity. Yes, we are in agreement there. In this case, it looks like all of the m4 tests passed except for one, and the Gnulib tests that failed are locale and multibyte related. Therefore, I suspect m4 should behave how you expect it to, assuming you don't use more modern Unicode characters released after that Operating System was released. However, discerning which test failures are critical to the program's use, or not, is a difficult task. So sending them to the list is the perfect thing to do. It also allows us to think of if and how we should handle them. Thanks for the report and the logs. > I really appreciate your work for its successful build on a 15 years > old OS. Thanks to such codes, we can maintain our old machines to run > old games. Old games are much better than new games. But it is not all > about games. Maintaining old systems/machines and resolving > compatibility challenges, keep you close to basic concepts and > fundamental underneath layer of subjects, many times tending to found > or establish a better optimized structure. Thank you for the kind words. I agree it is useful to keep things building on older platforms as long as it can be done without sacrificing the quality of software on more recent/common platforms. I actually tested GNU coreutils on Linux 2.6 VM just recently and was surprised to see everything build fine and all the tests pass. :) Collin
