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Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf |
Date: |
30 Nov 2000 16:28:43 +0100 |
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Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
| >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
| Alexandre> On Nov 30, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
| >> | +./configure: 24794 Alarm call
|
| >> This is why it failed: the shell complains of the signal it
| >> received. I don't know how to address this issue.
...
| Jim, Paul, you two guys certainly know very well the mktime test.
| How come the alarm was still set?
Do you mean why did was the code still running 60 seconds
after it started? Because that system has a rotten mktime implementation.
| And why is it
| the shell that received it (Ahem, my Unix knowledge is not too good...).
Because the program didn't handle SIGALRM itself.
| How would you fix it?
[ I haven't looked at the test suite code that tests AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
I presume that by `it' you mean the macro itself, and not the testing
framework. ]
One way would be to install a signal handler for SIGALRM
and then exit nonzero from the handler.
But that might be a little too involved a change to make this close
to a test release. Especially considering that this happens only on
systems with a broken mktime function. At worst, all it does is cause
a little confusion among the few users who actually pay attention to
the output of running configure on a losing system.
- Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/29
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Lars Hecking, 2000/11/29
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Pavel Roskin, 2000/11/29
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Lars Hecking, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Lars Hecking, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Alexandre Oliva, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/30
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/30
Re: Call for testing CVS Autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2000/11/30