Thanks a lot..Neil, let me try the new mksh and see how it goes.

Best Regards,
Anil


On 8 October 2013 13:46, Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7 October 2013 13:08, Anil Singhar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. I prepared the mksh test and ran them. There
> were
> > 5 failures (out of the 436 tests) as follows.
>
> Well done! 4 of those 5 are listed in the output as ignored.
>
> > Right now, I don't know if
> > these are failures due to klibc implementation or due to problems with
> the
> > way I have build mksh itself. To some extent I suspect mksh as well
> because
> > (i) I could not get mksh_44 (from this link: dget
> > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mksh/mksh_44-1.dsc , the
> link
> > seems to be broken)
>
> Since I started on this (and got that link), mksh has been updated.
> You can get 44-1.dsc from snapshot.debian.org:
>
>
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20130305T212453Z/pool/main/m/mksh/mksh_44-1.dsc
>
> > but I used whatever I got ( mksh_44.orig.tar.gz , this
> > may be missing some patches, how to get that.. ).(ii) While building
> mksh,
> > encountered some compiler errors (e.g. conftest.c) but the building
> seemed
> > to go fine despite these errors, so I went ahead with testing and ended
> up
> > with 5 failures out of which mksh ignores 4 and didn't expect 1 as it
> > reports.
> >
> > So, do you have any idea if I am doing the right thing..?
>
> I think you've done the right thing.
>
> > Should I worry
> > about getting mksh build without any compiler error or warning first
> before
> > attempting to use the tests..?
>
> Compare with the Debian build log for 44-1:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mksh&arch=amd64&ver=44-1&stamp=1363807013
>
> There's a different failure there.
>
> I think this is ready to take to klibc upstream, let them decide on
> the mksh test results.
>
> --
>
> Neil Williams
> =============
> [email protected]
> http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
>
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