Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12

[Thomas Klausner]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:37:47AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> I have released a new snapshot from branch-1.4, and hope to release it as
> M4 1.4.12 in the near future.  This should fix many of the complaints
> about strtod and other test failures that were reported against 1.4.11.
> However, it also introduces a new optional dependency on libsigsegv [1].
> It also swaps the order of the two testsuites, so that the m4 tests are
> run prior to the gnulib tests.  Therefore I would appreciate some feedback
> before making the 1.4.12 release (if you encounter a testsuite failure in
> the m4 suite, please rerun with 'make -k check' before reporting it, so
> that the gnulib testsuite is also run).

One failure on NetBSD-4.99.72/amd64:
test-frexp.c:113: assertion failed
[1]   Abort trap (core dumped) EXEEXT="" EXEEXT...
FAIL: test-frexp

Three more skipped:
SKIP: test-c-stack2.sh
SKIP: test-lock
SKIP: test-tls

Cheers,
 Thomas