Hello,
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:06:55 +0200 (CEST), Akim Demaille wrote:
> I just grabbed the tarball, and it works fine here
> I tried with a more recent CVS m4, and with Debian's with success in both
> cases. Both M4 did produce exactly the same output.
How very strange. Your successes prompted me to expand my testing to
additional platforms. In addition to my earlier trials, I used the
SourceForge CompileFarm machines, a MacOS/X machine to which I have shell
access, and asked one of the other Crystal Space developers to test with his
installation. All told, seven additional trials were run on different
platforms. All seven additional trials failed. Not only was I able to
reproduce both original problems ("excess arguments to m4_pushdef" and "m4
failed: 139"), but I experienced a third crasher ("cannot lock
autom4te.cache/requests").
Here is a summary of the additional trials:
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MacOS/X Jaguar
autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 139
Commentary: This is the exact same failure as the one experienced on
NextStep, which means that it occurs on modern platforms as well, rather than
only an obsolete one. Machine is always running the very lastest software
from Apple.
--------------------
CompileFarm: FreeBSD / 4.7-STABLE
Memory bounds violation detected (SIGSEGV). Either a stack overflow
occurred, or there is a bug in /usr/local/bin/gm4. Check for possible
infinite recursion.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
autom4te: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 139
Commentary: Again the crasher first noted on NextStep, but this time we have
more useful information.
--------------------
Redhat 9 / m4 1.4.1
configure.ac:762: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in
`m4_pushdef' ignored
Commentary: Test performed by alternate Crystal Space developer. Machine
runs the very latest packages from Redhat.
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CompileFarm: Linux 2.2 / Debian 3.0 / Alpha
configure.ac:762: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in
`m4_pushdef' ignored
--------------------
CompileFarm: Linux 2.4 / Redhat 7.3
configure.ac:762: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in
`m4_pushdef' ignored
--------------------
CompileFarm: Linux 2.4 / Debian 2.2
configure.ac:762: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in
`m4_pushdef' ignored
--------------------
CompileFarm: MacOS/X 10.2 SERVER Editiion
autom4te: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2: Operation not supported
Commentary: All CompileFarm tests were run from an NFS-mounted directory,
yet this one failed, causing Autoconf to abort. This problem probably should
not be a fatal error.
-- ES
