Re: GNU make 3.99.91 release candidate is available

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 10:23 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > Unfortunately I don't have a copy of Sun Studio and I don't have any
> > SPARC hardware.  I'll need someone with access to these to assist.
> 
> That is no problem. There are already a number of GNU projects that use
> our buildfarm to ensure portability to Solaris:
>   http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/
> The farm is equipped with Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 both Sparc and x86
> and both Sun Studio compilers and gcc. Just let me know if you want
> an account and send me your ssh public key.

OK, will do.

> > The first thing to try is re-running configure with the
> > "--without-guile" option then rebuild, to see if that helps.  If it
> > does, then I think we'll need to reconvene this discussion on the
> > guile-users list.
> 
> The compile works with --without-guile, but I get two possibly harmless
> warnings:

Hm.  I'll check with the Guile folks.

I think these warnings are harmless but I'll look.

> > "load.c", line 85: warning: assignment type mismatch:
> >         pointer to function(pointer to const struct  {pointer to const char 
> > filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void
> > "load.c", line 90: warning: assignment type mismatch:
> >         pointer to function(pointer to const struct  {pointer to const char 
> > filenm, unsigned long lineno}) returning int "=" pointer to void
> 
> Additionally, there are a number of tests failing:
> 
> > features/archives ....................................... FAILED (4/10 
> > passed)
> > features/escape ......................................... FAILED (6/8 
> > passed)
> > features/output-sync .................................... FAILED (8/9 
> > passed)
> > targets/ONESHELL ........................................ Error running 
> > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make
> >  (expected 0; got 512): 
> > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make
> >  -f work/targets/ONESHELL.mk.1
> > FAILED (5/6 passed)
> > variables/SHELL ......................................... Error running 
> > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make
> >  (expected 0; got 512): 
> > /home/dam/mgar/pkg/gmake/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/make-3.99.91/tests/../make
> >  -f work/variables/SHELL.mk.6
> > FAILED (7/8 passed)

This is much more concerning.