Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.62] testsuite: 44 failed

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:55:55PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ quoting generously; Vladimir may not be subscribed ]

sorry, Vladimir, that I forgot to cc you.

> Vladimir, can you post the md5sum of the script [...]

No need to do that, see below.

> * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:43:29PM CEST:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > as_echo='printf %s\n'
> > echo=`$as_echo '\a\b\c\f\n\r\t\v\"\'`
> > 
> > Generally, I tend to think that you have discovered a bug in (your
> > version of) bash, not in the Autoconf.
> 
> Except that I cannot reproduce the issue with the same shell.

Woo hoo!  I can!

No, seriously, I also failed to reproduce the problem yesterday.
I just supposed I'm supplying enough hints for Vladimir.  ;-)

But your innocent (was it?) comment has made me to try harder.
The original post mentions slamd64, so I downloaded
http://slamd64.wahlfaelschung.de/slamd64-current/slackware/a/bash-3.1.017-x86_64_slamd64-2.tgz
and was able to reproduce the bug with the binary inside.

Then I tried the same with bash-3.1.017-i486-2.tgz from slackware
and, again, I was able to reproduce the bug.

This bug should be reported.  I filed a request for an account in
bugzilla bugs.slamd64.com, no response yet.  I wasn't able to find
any bug report addres nor bug database for slackware.
Vladimir, could you please report the bug (with the two-line
reproducer quoted above) to the distributions?

Thanks,
        Stepan Kasal