Re: Patch: Fix OS X PowerPC support

[Bruno Haible]

Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> On 30/11/2021 01:12, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > I suspect that it merely compiles, but does not actually work on Mac
> > OS X 10.4.x.
> > 
> > You can find out by running "make check", to see whether the unit
> > tests pass.
> 
> 
> Running "make check" results in 2 test failures without the use of 
> libsigsegv.
> 
> ./../build-aux/test-driver: line 112:  5311 Illegal instruction     "$@" 
>  >> "$log_file" 2>&1
> FAIL: test-sigsegv-catch-stackoverflow1
> ./../build-aux/test-driver: line 112:  5318 Illegal instruction     "$@" 
>  >> "$log_file" 2>&1
> FAIL: test-sigsegv-catch-stackoverflow2
> 
> With the use of libsigsegv, all 19 tests pass.

OK. But that part of libsigsegv is too big for Gnulib. The best thing we
could do is to clarify it in the file modules/sigsegv.

Bruno