Re: Traces issue on DOS resolved

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> Hmm - apparently, the DJGPP port of Perl is not without its
Tim> problems.  It is the cause of the lost traces.  For whatever
Tim> reason (I'll have to delve deeper to find out exactly what) it
Tim> breaks m4's --error-output option.  So when the m4 command run by
Tim> autom4te is run directly from the shell, or through system() from
Tim> a C program, it produces a traces file, but if run from Perl's
Tim> system() function, it produces an empty traces file.  As a
Tim> workaround, I now have autom4te run

Tim>    m4 ... 2>traces >output

Tim> instead of

Tim>   m4 --error-output=traces ... >output

Beware, that's very different: errprint message are _not_ redirected
with --error-output, which means that in your case, the traces might
be polluted with error msg etc.  The rest of the machinery _will_
choke some day.

Tim> and that seems to work.  I'll try to find a better way; if that
Tim> is not possible, and the above change is viable on other
Tim> platforms (don't see why not) I'll submit a patch to that effect.

No, that patch cannot be accepted :(

Tim> I'll run the full testsuite later tonight to see what issues
Tim> remain.

Thanks Tim!  Thanks a lot.

I would right a very small Perl script exhibiting the problem, and ask
for assistance to Perl/DJGPP-Perl gurus.