bug#28665: Testsuite summary for GNU sed 4.4 on Debian 8.8 PowerPC fails in 19 cases

[Dennis Clarke]

On 10/02/2017 03:17 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello Dennis,
>
> On 2017-10-01 05:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > In almost every case the test log claims the test binary can not be found!
> >
> > deb8_ppc64$ file sed/sed
> > sed/sed: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500,
> > version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld64.so.1, for
>
> Thank you for reporting this, with ample details.

Thank you for the quick reply.  I was hoping to track down what is
happening and am happy it is the very next morning with coffee in hand.

> Soon after the official release of sed-4.4 the test infrastructure
> has been completely rewritten (and some outdated tests have been removed).
>
> To help us understand if this is a current issue in 'sed'
> or a problem in the tests,
> may I ask you to try the latest development 'sed' version ?

I can certainly try.

> If you can build from git (and have tools such as autotools/autoconf
> installed), the commands would be:

Let me try the fetch of sed-4.4.84-a59fb first and then come back to 
this if there is a problem.

> If some tests still fail in this latest version, please attach the test
> suite log file.

Well, oops, they do. A pile of them.

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU sed 4.4.84-a59fb
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 79
# PASS:  53
# SKIP:  6
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  20
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

See ./test-suite_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64_20171002112108.log.xz

> Can you also show the output of 'uname -a', which compiler are you using
> (e.g. 'gcc -v'), and are you cross-compiling or building on the ppc64
> machine directly ?

Let's gather up those details here and then circle around and try the
 git repo :

deb8_ppc64$ date ; tn ; dn
Mon Oct  2 11:10:16 GMT 2017
1506942616
20171002111016
deb8_ppc64$ uname -a
Linux charon 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) 
ppc64 GNU/Linux
deb8_ppc64$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$ /usr/bin/gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper
Target: powerpc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.9.2-10' 
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs 
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr 
--program-suffix=-4.9 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.9 --libdir=/usr/lib 
--enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu 
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes 
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libitm --disable-libsanitizer 
--disable-libquadmath --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib 
--disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo 
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-powerpc/jre 
--enable-java-home 
--with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-powerpc 
--with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-powerpc 
--with-arch-directory=ppc --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar 
--enable-objc-gc --enable-secureplt --disable-softfloat 
--with-cpu=default32 --disable-softfloat 
--enable-targets=powerpc-linux,powerpc64-linux --enable-multiarch 
--with-long-double-128 --enable-multilib --enable-checking=release 
--build=powerpc-linux-gnu --host=powerpc-linux-gnu 
--target=powerpc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$ /usr/bin/gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

deb8_ppc64$


deb8_ppc64$ `/usr/bin/gcc -print-prog-name=cc1plus` -v
ignoring nonexistent directory 
"/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/include/c++/4.9
 /usr/include/powerpc-linux-gnu/c++/4.9
 /usr/include/c++/4.9/backward
 /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.9/include
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.9/include-fixed
 /usr/include
End of search list.
^C
deb8_ppc64$

The environment looks like :



deb8_ppc64$ env | sort
CFLAGS=-m64 -g -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -mcpu=970 -maltivec -mfull-toc 
-mregnames
COLUMNS=132
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
CXXFLAGS=-m64 -g -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -mcpu=970 -maltivec 
-mfull-toc -mregnames
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
HISTORY=128
HISTSIZE=128
HOME=/home/dclarke
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
LD_FLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
LD_OPTIONS=-m64 -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib
LINES=43
LOGNAME=dclarke
MAIL=/var/mail/dclarke
MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/opt/schily/share/man
OLDPWD=/usr/local/build
PAGER=more
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/schily/bin
POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
POSIX_ME_HARDER=1
PWD=/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001
RUNPATH=/usr/local/lib
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
SSH_CLIENT=172.16.35.9 48140 22
SSH_CONNECTION=172.16.35.9 48140 172.16.35.5 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1
TERM=xterm
TZ=GMT0
_=/usr/bin/env
VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi
XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.utf8
deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$

However please consider that I was flailing a bit to get a decent build
going  :-\


deb8_ppc64$ xz -dc ../src/sed-4.4.84-a59fb.tar.xz | tar -xf -

deb8_ppc64$ ls -lad sed-4.4.84-a59fb/
drwxr-sr-x 10 dclarke devl 4096 Oct  2 07:02 sed-4.4.84-a59fb/

deb8_ppc64$ mv sed-4.4.84-a59fb sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_`uname -r`_`uname 
-m`.001

deb8_ppc64$ cd sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_`uname -r`_`uname -m`.001

deb8_ppc64$ pwd
/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001

I ran configure the same way I did last time thus :


deb8_ppc64$ ./configure --enable-dependency-tracking \
> --enable-regex-tests --without-selinux \
> --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... -std=gnu11
checking dependency style of gcc -std=gnu11... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu11 -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/local/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/local/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined... no
checking for Minix Amsterdam compiler... no
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking build system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for fchmod... yes
checking for btowc... yes
checking for canonicalize_file_name... yes
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for readlink... yes
checking for realpath... yes
checking for symlink... yes
checking for __fwriting... yes
checking for getdelim... yes
checking for getprogname... no
checking for getexecname... no
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for isblank... yes
checking for lstat... yes
checking for mbsinit... yes
checking for mbrtowc... yes
checking for mbrlen... yes
checking for mprotect... yes
checking for mkostemp... yes
checking for _set_invalid_parameter_handler... no
checking for nl_langinfo... yes
checking for iswctype... yes
checking for link... yes
checking for secure_getenv... yes
checking for getuid... yes
checking for geteuid... yes
checking for getgid... yes
checking for getegid... yes
checking for wcrtomb... yes
checking for wctob... yes
checking for iswcntrl... yes
checking for fpurge... no
checking for __fpurge... yes
checking for __freading... yes
checking for getdtablesize... yes
checking for newlocale... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for isatty... yes
checking for isascii... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for popen... yes
checking for pathconf... yes
checking for fchown... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking whether <wchar.h> uses 'inline' correctly... yes
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... none
checking whether // is distinct from /... no
checking whether realpath works... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdio_ext.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for getopt.h... yes
checking for sys/cdefs.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for langinfo.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for xlocale.h... yes
checking for sys/mman.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for selinux/selinux.h... no
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for features.h... yes
checking for crtdefs.h... no
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking for mcheck.h... yes
checking whether the preprocessor supports include_next... yes
checking whether system header files limit the line length... no
checking for complete errno.h... yes
checking whether strerror_r is declared... yes
checking for strerror_r... yes
checking whether strerror_r returns char *... yes
checking for working fcntl.h... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for mode_t... yes
checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
checking for nlink_t... yes
checking whether fchmodat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fstat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fstatat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether futimens is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether lchmod is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether lstat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkdirat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkfifo is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkfifoat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mknod is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mknodat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether stat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether utimensat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getdelim is declared... yes
checking for getopt.h... (cached) yes
checking for getopt_long_only... yes
checking whether getopt is POSIX compatible... yes
checking for working GNU getopt function... yes
checking for working GNU getopt_long function... yes
checking for C/C++ restrict keyword... __restrict
checking for struct timeval... yes
checking for wide-enough struct timeval.tv_sec member... yes
checking whether gettimeofday is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether limits.h has ULLONG_WIDTH etc.... no
checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library >= 2.1 or uClibc... yes
checking for wchar_t... yes
checking for max_align_t... yes
checking whether NULL can be used in arbitrary expressions... yes
checking for ld used by gcc -std=gnu11... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for the common suffixes of directories in the library search 
path... lib,lib
checking for multithread API to use... none
checking whether lstat correctly handles trailing slash... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether malloc, realloc, calloc are POSIX compliant... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for unsigned long long int... yes
checking for long long int... yes
checking for mbstate_t... yes
checking for a traditional japanese locale... none
checking for a transitional chinese locale... none
checking for a french Unicode locale... none
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles a NULL pwc argument... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles a NULL string argument... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc has a correct return value... guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc returns 0 when parsing a NUL character... 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works on empty input... no
checking whether the C locale is free of encoding errors... no
checking for mmap... yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking whether memchr works... yes
checking whether memrchr is declared... yes
checking whether <limits.h> defines MIN and MAX... no
checking whether <sys/param.h> defines MIN and MAX... yes
checking whether alarm is declared... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for wint_t... yes
checking whether wint_t is too small... no
checking whether stdint.h conforms to C99... yes
checking whether stdint.h predates C++11... no
checking whether stdint.h has UINTMAX_WIDTH etc.... no
checking whether strerror(0) succeeds... yes
checking whether ffsl is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ffsll is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether memmem is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mempcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether memrchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether rawmemchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether stpcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether stpncpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strchrnul is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strdup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strncat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strndup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strnlen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strpbrk is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strsep is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strcasestr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtok_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strerror_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strsignal is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strverscmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking for struct timespec in <time.h>... yes
checking whether clearerr_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether feof_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether ferror_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fflush_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fputc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fputs_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fread_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fwrite_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether getchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether putchar_unlocked is declared... yes
checking if environ is properly declared... yes
checking whether stdin defaults to large file offsets... yes
checking whether fseeko is declared... yes
checking for fseeko... yes
checking whether fflush works on input streams... no
checking whether ungetc works on arbitrary bytes... yes
checking whether ftello is declared... yes
checking for ftello... yes
checking whether ftello works... yes
checking whether getcwd (NULL, 0) allocates memory for result... yes
checking for getcwd with POSIX signature... yes
checking whether getdtablesize is declared... yes
checking whether imaxabs is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether imaxdiv is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtoimax is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtoumax is declared without a macro... yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking whether the inttypes.h PRIxNN macros are broken... no
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for promoted mode_t type... mode_t
checking whether setenv is declared... yes
checking search.h usability... yes
checking search.h presence... yes
checking for search.h... yes
checking for tsearch... yes
checking whether strdup is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether unsetenv is declared... yes
checking sys/acl.h usability... no
checking sys/acl.h presence... no
checking for sys/acl.h... no
configure: WARNING: libacl development library was not found or not usable.
configure: WARNING: GNU sed will be built without ACL support.
checking for alloca as a compiler built-in... yes
checking whether to enable assertions... yes
checking whether btowc(0) is correct... yes
checking whether btowc(EOF) is correct... guessing yes
checking for __builtin_expect... yes
checking whether isblank is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether // is distinct from /... (cached) no
checking for error_at_line... yes
checking whether fcntl is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether openat is declared without a macro... yes
checking for __fpending... yes
checking whether __fpending is declared... yes
checking for working getdelim function... yes
checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... yes
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... yes
checking whether __argv is declared... no
checking whether gettimeofday clobbers localtime buffer... no
checking for gettimeofday with POSIX signature... almost
checking whether langinfo.h defines CODESET... yes
checking whether langinfo.h defines T_FMT_AMPM... yes
checking whether langinfo.h defines ERA... yes
checking whether langinfo.h defines YESEXPR... yes
checking whether nl_langinfo is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether locale.h conforms to POSIX:2001... yes
checking whether locale.h defines locale_t... yes
checking whether struct lconv is properly defined... yes
checking whether setlocale is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether duplocale is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles a NULL pwc argument... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles a NULL string argument... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc has a correct return value... (cached) guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc returns 0 when parsing a NUL character... 
(cached) guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works on empty input... (cached) no
checking whether the C locale is free of encoding errors... (cached) no
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing yes
checking for memrchr... yes
checking whether YESEXPR works... yes
checking for obstacks that work with any size object... no
checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether readlink signature is correct... yes
checking whether readlink handles trailing slash correctly... yes
checking for working re_compile_pattern... yes
checking whether rename honors trailing slash on destination... yes
checking whether rename honors trailing slash on source... yes
checking whether rename manages hard links correctly... yes
checking whether rename manages existing destinations correctly... yes
checking whether rmdir works... yes
checking for ssize_t... yes
checking whether stat handles trailing slashes on files... yes
checking for working stdalign.h... yes
checking for va_copy... yes
checking for max_align_t... (cached) yes
checking whether NULL can be used in arbitrary expressions... (cached) yes
checking which flavor of printf attribute matches inttypes macros... system
checking whether dprintf is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fpurge is declared without a macro... no
checking whether fseeko is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ftello is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getdelim is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getline is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether gets is declared without a macro... no
checking whether pclose is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether popen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether renameat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether snprintf is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether tmpfile is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether vdprintf is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether vsnprintf is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether _Exit is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether atoll is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether canonicalize_file_name is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getloadavg is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getsubopt is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether grantpt is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether initstate is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether initstate_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkdtemp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkostemp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkostemps is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkstemp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mkstemps is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether posix_openpt is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ptsname is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ptsname_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether qsort_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether random is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether random_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether realpath is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether rpmatch is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether secure_getenv is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether setenv is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether setstate is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether setstate_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether srandom is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether srandom_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtod is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtoll is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtoull is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether unlockpt is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether unsetenv is declared without a macro... yes
checking for working strerror function... yes
checking for strverscmp... yes
checking for nlink_t... (cached) yes
checking whether fchmodat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether fstat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether fstatat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether futimens is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether lchmod is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether lstat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether mkdirat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether mkfifo is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether mkfifoat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether mknod is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether mknodat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether stat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether utimensat is declared without a macro... (cached) yes
checking whether chdir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether chown is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether dup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether dup2 is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether dup3 is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether environ is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether euidaccess is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether faccessat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fchdir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fchownat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fdatasync is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fsync is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ftruncate is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getcwd is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getdomainname is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getdtablesize is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getgroups is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether gethostname is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getlogin is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getlogin_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getpagesize is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether getusershell is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether setusershell is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether endusershell is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether group_member is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether isatty is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether lchown is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether link is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether linkat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether lseek is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether pipe is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether pipe2 is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether pread is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether pwrite is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether readlink is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether readlinkat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether rmdir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sethostname is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sleep is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether symlink is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether symlinkat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether truncate is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether ttyname_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether unlink is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether unlinkat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether usleep is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether btowc is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wctob is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbsinit is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbrtowc is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbrlen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbsrtowcs is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbsnrtowcs is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcrtomb is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsrtombs is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsnrtombs is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcwidth is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wmemchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wmemcmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wmemcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wmemmove is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wmemset is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcslen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsnlen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcpcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsncpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcpncpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsncat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsncmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscasecmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsncasecmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscoll is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsxfrm is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsdup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcschr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsrchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcscspn is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsspn is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcspbrk is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsstr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcstok is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcswidth is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wcsftime is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) 
guessing yes
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) guessing yes
checking whether wcrtomb return value is correct... guessing yes
checking whether wctob works... guessing yes
checking whether wctob is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether iswcntrl works... yes
checking for towlower... yes
checking for wctype_t... yes
checking for wctrans_t... yes
checking whether wctype is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether iswctype is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether wctrans is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether towctrans is declared without a macro... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a turkish Unicode locale... none
checking for closedir... yes
checking whether alphasort is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether closedir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether dirfd is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether fdopendir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether opendir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether readdir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether rewinddir is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether scandir is declared without a macro... yes
checking for dirfd... yes
checking whether dirfd is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether dirfd is a macro... no
checking whether dup2 works... yes
checking whether fdopen sets errno... yes
checking whether fflush works on input streams... (cached) no
checking for getxattr with XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL macros... yes
checking for flexible array member... yes
checking whether fpurge is declared... no
checking for fseeko... (cached) yes
checking whether fflush works on input streams... (cached) no
checking for _fseeki64... no
checking for ftello... (cached) yes
checking whether ftello works... (cached) yes
checking whether getdtablesize works... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking whether getpagesize is declared... (cached) yes
checking whether INT32_MAX < INTMAX_MAX... yes
checking whether INT64_MAX == LONG_MAX... yes
checking whether UINT32_MAX < UINTMAX_MAX... yes
checking whether UINT64_MAX == ULONG_MAX... yes
checking whether link obeys POSIX... yes
checking for setlocale... (cached) yes
checking for uselocale... yes
checking for getlocalename_l... no
checking whether lseek detects pipes... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking for a traditional japanese locale... (cached) none
checking for a transitional chinese locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking for mmap... (cached) yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking for mmap... (cached) yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking whether open recognizes a trailing slash... yes
checking for opendir... yes
checking for putenv compatible with GNU and SVID... yes
checking for mmap... (cached) yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking for readdir... yes
checking whether setenv validates arguments... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking for a traditional japanese locale... (cached) none
checking for a transitional chinese locale... (cached) none
checking whether symlink handles trailing slash correctly... yes
checking for unsetenv... yes
checking for unsetenv() return type... int
checking whether unsetenv obeys POSIX... yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) none
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) none
checking for a traditional japanese locale... (cached) none
checking for a transitional chinese locale... (cached) none
checking whether "rt" can be used with fopen... yes
checking whether -lcP is needed... no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/local/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/local/bin/msgmerge
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... (cached) no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... (cached) no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking whether UTF-8 case folding tests should pass... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating gnulib-tests/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
deb8_ppc64$

Note that I did try to build libacl and attr and just stopped and
decided to handle one problem at a time.

I am using my own GNU make which tests perfectly :

deb8_ppc64$ /usr/local/bin/gmake --version
GNU Make 3.82
Built for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
deb8_ppc64$


Compile runs fine with no warnings :


deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$ /usr/local/bin/gmake
  GEN      lib/alloca.h
  GEN      lib/configmake.h
  GEN      lib/ctype.h
  GEN      lib/fcntl.h
  GEN      lib/langinfo.h
  GEN      lib/limits.h
  GEN      lib/locale.h
  GEN      lib/selinux/selinux.h
  GEN      lib/selinux/context.h
  GEN      lib/stdint.h
  GEN      lib/stdio.h
  GEN      lib/stdlib.h
  GEN      lib/string.h
  GEN      lib/sys/stat.h
  GEN      lib/sys/time.h
  GEN      lib/sys/types.h
  GEN      lib/time.h
  GEN      lib/unistd.h
  GEN      lib/wchar.h
  GEN      lib/wctype.h
  GEN      sed/version.c
  GEN      sed/version.h
/usr/local/bin/gmake  all-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
Making all in po
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/po'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/po'
Making all in .
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
  CC       lib/copy-acl.o
  CC       lib/set-acl.o
  CC       lib/acl-errno-valid.o
  CC       lib/acl-internal.o
  CC       lib/get-permissions.o
  CC       lib/set-permissions.o
  CC       lib/c-ctype.o
  CC       lib/c-strcasecmp.o
  CC       lib/c-strncasecmp.o
  CC       lib/close-stream.o
  CC       lib/closeout.o
  CC       lib/dfa.o
  CC       lib/localeinfo.o
  CC       lib/dirname-lgpl.o
  CC       lib/basename-lgpl.o
  CC       lib/stripslash.o
  CC       lib/exitfail.o
  CC       lib/getprogname.o
  CC       lib/hard-locale.o
  CC       lib/localcharset.o
  CC       lib/glthread/lock.o
  CC       lib/malloca.o
  CC       lib/progname.o
  CC       lib/qcopy-acl.o
  CC       lib/qset-acl.o
  CC       lib/quotearg.o
  CC       lib/se-context.o
  CC       lib/se-selinux.o
  CC       lib/tempname.o
  CC       lib/glthread/threadlib.o
  CC       lib/unistd.o
  CC       lib/version-etc.o
  CC       lib/version-etc-fsf.o
  CC       lib/wctype-h.o
  CC       lib/xmalloc.o
  CC       lib/xalloc-die.o
  CC       lib/localtime-buffer.o
  CC       lib/mbrlen.o
  CC       lib/mbrtowc.o
  CC       lib/obstack.o
  AR       lib/libsed.a
  CC       sed/version.o
  AR       sed/libver.a
  CC       sed/sed_sed-compile.o
  CC       sed/sed_sed-execute.o
  CC       sed/sed_sed-mbcs.o
  CC       sed/sed_sed-regexp.o
  CC       sed/sed_sed-sed.o
  CC       sed/sed_sed-utils.o
  CCLD     sed/sed
  GEN      lib/charset.alias
  GEN      lib/ref-add.sed
  GEN      lib/ref-del.sed
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
Making all in gnulib-tests
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
  GEN      dirent.h
  GEN      inttypes.h
/usr/local/bin/gmake  all-recursive
gmake[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
Making all in .
gmake[4]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
gmake[4]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/gnulib-tests'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
deb8_ppc64$

That looks great.

The testsuite is not so good :

deb8_ppc64$ /usr/local/bin/gmake check
  GEN      public-submodule-commit
/usr/local/bin/gmake  check-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
Making check in po
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/po'
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001/po'
Making check in .
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
/usr/local/bin/gmake  testsuite/get-mb-cur-max testsuite/test-mbrtowc 
testsuite/bug-regex7 testsuite/bug-regex8 testsuite/bug-regex9 
testsuite/bug-regex10 testsuite/bug-regex11 testsuite/bug-regex12 
testsuite/bug-regex13 testsuite/bug-regex14 testsuite/bug-regex15 
testsuite/bug-regex16 testsuite/bug-regex21 testsuite/bug-regex27 
testsuite/bug-regex28 testsuite/tst-pcre testsuite/tst-boost 
testsuite/runtests testsuite/runptests testsuite/tst-rxspencer 
testsuite/tst-regex2
gmake[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
  CC       testsuite/get-mb-cur-max.o
  CCLD     testsuite/get-mb-cur-max
  CC       testsuite/test-mbrtowc.o
  CCLD     testsuite/test-mbrtowc
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex7.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex7
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex8.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex8
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex9.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex9
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex10.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex10
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex11.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex11
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex12.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex12
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex13.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex13
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex14.o
testsuite/bug-regex14.c:23:0: warning: "_REGEX_RE_COMP" redefined
 #define _REGEX_RE_COMP
 ^
In file included from testsuite/bug-regex14.c:21:0:
./config.h:1836:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
 #define _REGEX_RE_COMP 1
 ^
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex14
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex15.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex15
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex16.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex16
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex21.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex21
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex27.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex27
  CC       testsuite/bug-regex28.o
  CCLD     testsuite/bug-regex28
  CC       testsuite/tst-pcre.o
  CCLD     testsuite/tst-pcre
  CC       testsuite/tst-boost.o
  CCLD     testsuite/tst-boost
  CC       testsuite/runtests.o
  CCLD     testsuite/runtests
  CC       testsuite/runptests.o
  CCLD     testsuite/runptests
  CC       testsuite/tst-rxspencer.o
testsuite/tst-rxspencer.c: In function 'mb_test':
testsuite/tst-rxspencer.c:341:11: warning: passing argument 1 of 'free' 
discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type
     free (string_mb);
           ^
In file included from ./lib/stdlib.h:36:0,
                 from testsuite/tst-rxspencer.c:29:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:483:13: note: expected 'void *' but argument is of 
type 'const char *'
 extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
             ^
  CCLD     testsuite/tst-rxspencer
  CC       testsuite/tst-regex2.o
  CCLD     testsuite/tst-regex2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
/usr/local/bin/gmake  check-TESTS
gmake[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake[4]: Entering directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
SKIP: testsuite/get-mb-cur-max
SKIP: testsuite/test-mbrtowc
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex7
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex8
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex9
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex10
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex11
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex12
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex13
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex14
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex15
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex16
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex21
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex27
FAIL: testsuite/bug-regex28
FAIL: testsuite/tst-pcre
FAIL: testsuite/tst-boost
FAIL: testsuite/runtests
FAIL: testsuite/runptests
FAIL: testsuite/tst-rxspencer
FAIL: testsuite/tst-regex2
PASS: testsuite/misc.pl
PASS: testsuite/cmd-l.sh
PASS: testsuite/cmd-R.sh
PASS: testsuite/colon-with-no-label.sh
PASS: testsuite/comment-n.sh
PASS: testsuite/compile-errors.sh
PASS: testsuite/compile-tests.sh
PASS: testsuite/convert-number.sh
PASS: testsuite/command-endings.sh
PASS: testsuite/execute-tests.sh
PASS: testsuite/help-version.sh
PASS: testsuite/in-place-hyphen.sh
PASS: testsuite/in-place-suffix-backup.sh
invalid-mb-seq-UMR.sh: skipped test: requires a working valgrind
SKIP: testsuite/invalid-mb-seq-UMR.sh
PASS: testsuite/mb-bad-delim.sh
mb-charclass-non-utf8.sh: skipped test: ja_JP shift-jis locale not found
SKIP: testsuite/mb-charclass-non-utf8.sh
PASS: testsuite/mb-match-slash.sh
PASS: testsuite/mb-y-translate.sh
newline-dfa-bug.sh: skipped test: requires a working valgrind
SKIP: testsuite/newline-dfa-bug.sh
PASS: testsuite/normalize-text.sh
PASS: testsuite/nulldata.sh
PASS: testsuite/panic-tests.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-char-class.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-mode-addr.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-mode-bad-ref.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-mode-ERE.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-mode-s.sh
PASS: testsuite/posix-mode-N.sh
PASS: testsuite/range-overlap.sh
PASS: testsuite/recursive-escape-c.sh
PASS: testsuite/regex-errors.sh
PASS: testsuite/sandbox.sh
PASS: testsuite/stdin-prog.sh
PASS: testsuite/subst-options.sh
PASS: testsuite/subst-mb-incomplete.sh
PASS: testsuite/subst-replacement.sh
PASS: testsuite/temp-file-cleanup.sh
title-case.sh: skipped test: el_GR.iso88597 locale not found
SKIP: testsuite/title-case.sh
PASS: testsuite/unbuffered.sh
PASS: testsuite/follow-symlinks.sh
PASS: testsuite/follow-symlinks-stdin.sh
PASS: testsuite/8bit.sh
PASS: testsuite/8to7.sh
PASS: testsuite/badenc.sh
PASS: testsuite/binary.sh
PASS: testsuite/bsd-wrapper.sh
PASS: testsuite/dc.sh
PASS: testsuite/distrib.sh
PASS: testsuite/eval.sh
PASS: testsuite/help.sh
PASS: testsuite/inplace-hold.sh
PASS: testsuite/mac-mf.sh
PASS: testsuite/madding.sh
PASS: testsuite/newjis.sh
PASS: testsuite/stdin.sh
FAIL: testsuite/utf8-ru.sh
PASS: testsuite/uniq.sh
PASS: testsuite/xemacs.sh
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU sed 4.4.84-a59fb
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 79
# PASS:  53
# SKIP:  6
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  20
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to address@hidden
============================================================================
gmake[4]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001'
gmake: *** [check] Error 2
deb8_ppc64$ pwd
/usr/local/build/sed-4.4.84-a59fb_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64.001
deb8_ppc64$
deb8_ppc64$ dn
20171002112108
deb8_ppc64$ cp -p ./test-suite.log 
./test-suite_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64_ppc64_20171002112108.log


So no joy there.

> FWIW,
> I've just tested the latest snapshop on gcc-compile-farm's ppc64 machine
> (running centos 7), and there were no test failures.

Hrmmm CentOS 7 ( or RHEL ) on Power8 or similar is something I do not
have .. at least not today.  I tend to test and build a lot of things
on RISC architecture for the obvious reasons.  Too much intel x86 out
there and the assumptions that go along with it. SPARC. I have lots of
that.

Let's try the git pull and hope that autotools/automagic works .. which
it often does not :

deb8_ppc64$ pwd
/usr/local/src/sed_git
deb8_ppc64$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/sed.git
Cloning into 'sed'...
remote: Counting objects: 5337, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (989/989), done.
remote: Total 5337 (delta 4206), reused 5337 (delta 4206)
Receiving objects: 100% (5337/5337), 1.83 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4206/4206), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
deb8_ppc64$


From here on in I will just attach a log that shows that everything
seemed to be going fine and then compile fails in fun ways.  So no joy
from the git repo either.

See attached log sed_from_git_bug_28665.log.xz

I will go all the way back to sed-4.2.2.tar.gz as seen at
 https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/ and that should "just work" out of the
 box. However I really want to see this work.

Dennis

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