Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.2.1 test failure on macOS

[arnold]

Hi.

Thank you for taking the time to submit a bug report.

The use of more is deliberate, so that a human can see all the failures
without them rolling off the screen.

This failure is due to the lack of GNU Gettext. Either it's not there,
or gawk's configure could not find it.  In any case, it's not a major
issue and you can use the gawk executable that you've built.

Thanks,

Arnold

Charles Diza <address@hidden> wrote:

> > On macOS 10.13.3, I just tried building the new gawk 4.2.1.  It builds
> fine, but the `make check` step fails, with this:
> >
> > ========8<=================================
> > rwarray
> > testext
> > time
> > 1 TESTS FAILED
> > make[2]: *** [pass-fail] Error 1
> > for i in _* ; \
> > do  \
> > if [ "$i" != "_*" ]; then \
> > echo ============== $i ============= ; \
> > base=`echo $i | sed 's/^_//'` ; \
> > if [ -r ${base}.ok ]; then \
> > diff -c ${base}.ok $i ; \
> > else \
> > diff -c "."/${base}.ok  $i ; \
> > fi ; \
> > fi ; \
> > done | more
> > ============== _nlstringtest =============
> > *** nlstringtest.ok 2018-01-15 13:37:32.000000000 -0500
> > --- _nlstringtest 2018-02-25 17:04:34.000000000 -0500
> > ***************
> > *** 1,5 ****
> > ! 2 morceaux de gateau
> > ! %2$s remplace %1$s.
> > ! %2$s remplace %1$s.
> >
> > ! EUR remplace FF.
> > --- 1,5 ----
> > ! 2 pieces of cake
> > ! %s is replaced by %s.
> > ! %s is replaced by %s.
> >
> > ! FF is replaced by EUR.
> > make[1]: *** [check] Error 1
> > make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > ===================>8=======================
> >
> > I get this failure whether or not I build it from within Homebrew.  If I
> build it outside Homebrew---straight-up---the last line "! FF is replaced
> by EUR" is seemingly under the control of `less` or some other pager,
> because it will stay there indefinitely until I hit a key.  At that point,
> the make error shows.
> >
> > My compilation flags were:
> > --disable-debug
> > --disable-dependency-tracking
> > --without-readline
> > --without-mpfr
> > --without-libsigsegv-prefix
>
>
> Bisection on the gawk git repo reveals that
> bae14502b6389b7d81bf0841a35b4c9d9824ca10 Is the first bad gawk commit.
>
> During bisection, some of the "bad" stages had slightly different test
> failures than the one I'm reporting.  I labeled those "bad" and went on
> with the bisection.
>
> Also, it's `more` that the last tests gets stuck in for some reason.
>
> -Charles