The following reply was made to PR bin/166994; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Torbjorn Granlund <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: bin/166994: m4(1): m4's eval function ignores documented 2nd and 3rd arguments Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:29:18 +0100
This bug report is for FreeBSD 9. It is NOT patched. The m4 command malfunctions in 8.x for any x and 9.y for any y. The documentation nevertheless continues to mention 3 arguments for the eval functions. It is not a bug that the 2nd and 3rd arguments are ignored; there is simply no code in m4 that attempts to implement that functionality. Please, please either fix eval to honour 3 arguments, or document it in m4's man page as accepting just 1 argument for 8-STABLE and 9-STABLE. (As things stand now, No FreeBSD release or snapshot work for me on Haswell: The m4 bug makes releases inappropriate, kernel panics make amd64 FreeBSD 10 prereleases unusable, and clang bugs make i386 FreeBSD 10 prereleases unusable...) --=20 Torbj=C3=B6rn _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
