Re: On NetBSD 7.0, m4 tests fail because they use nonexistent uselocale

[Eric Blake]

On 01/17/2016 05:51 AM, Janus Troelsen wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> This mailing list is dead, but I am also not sure if m4 is effectively
> supported for non-GNU platforms, as I had a problem on FreeBSD and got no
> replies.

No, the list is not dead, but just very low volume. M4 is supported on
non-GNU platforms, but only insofar as there is volunteer time
submitting problem reports and patches.

> 
> Regards,
> Janus
> 
> 2016-01-16 23:54 GMT+01:00 Roland Illig <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Building m4 ends with this:
>>
>> test-localename.c: In function 'test_locale_name':
>> test-localename.c:74:3: warning: implicit declaration of function
>> 'uselocale' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>    uselocale (LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE);
>>    ^
>>
>> And later an undefined reference to uselocale.

This sounds like a failure in the gnulib testsuite, and not in m4
proper.  I'm adding the gnulib list in cc in case anyone else has seen
this problem.  It might be something that has already been fixed, where
updating m4 to use a newer gnulib snapshot would pull in the fix.

>>
>> The code already contains #ifdefs for HAVE_NEWLOCALE, but that seems to
>> be different from HAVE_USELOCALE, which also exists.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>>
> 

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