Re: [bug-gettext] FAIL: test-vasnprintf

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Michael D'Errico wrote:
> I built gettext-0.19.8.1 on Mac OS 10.13.6 with Xcode
> as the compiler.  During 'make check' I had one test
> fail and it asked that I report the problem here.
> 
> This error message was printed during 'make check':
> 
>    ../../build-aux/test-driver: line 107: 56102 Abort \
>        trap: 6           "$@" > $log_file 2>&1
>    FAIL: test-vasnprintf

Thanks for the report. This was already fixed in gnulib through

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=c41f233c4c38e84023a16339782ee306f03e7f59

> Also, I'm reluctant to install it with this error, do you
> have an idea of the severity of problems this could
> cause?

If it was severe, you would see some of the tests in the
gettext-tools/tests/ directory fail. Since none of these tests
failed, you can be confident and install the built binaries.

Bruno