On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > >> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.19.12-96bd.tar.xz > > > I've built and run "make check" on the following platforms: > > Ubuntu 13.04 x86-64 > Fedora 20 x86-64 > RHEL 6.5 x86-64 > Solaris 10 sparc (32 and 64) > Solaris 11.1 x86-64 > IRIX 6.5 mips GCC 3.4.6 (as the system CC won't compile C99 code) > AIX 7.1 xlc power (32 and 64)
Nice! Thanks for all the testing! > The only problems I ran into were on AIX 7.1. I don't think they're > serious, but here are the details if you're interested. > > In 64-bit mode I had to set OBJECT_MODE=64 in the environment, as well as > build with 'CC=xlc -q64'; otherwise the AR make actions wouldn't work when > building the .a files. This is a bit of an annoyance to remember but is no > big deal. > > The Gnulib exclude tests failed due to a missing pthread library; I fixed > this in gnulib commit a14d4c0c7c41c726497673825abd832d9cad74b9. > > The Gnulib test test-fcntl-h.c won't compile because xlc's preprocessor > supports only 32-bit arithmetic in #if, which means that expressions like > "#if O_TTY_INIT" don't work correctly when O_TTY_INIT == > 0x0000004000000000L, as it does on AIX. Sheesh. At this point I gave up > trying to port gnulib tests to AIX. (The grep tests proper all passed or > skipped.) Indeed. Thanks for the details.
