Re: m4 does not build on Tandem NSK/OSS

[Matthew Woehlke]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Matthew Woehlke on 11/9/2006 5:18 PM:
> > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>
> Hi Matthew,
> (and it's been fun watching you discover all the mailing lists that I haunt :)

Yes, I've been noticing that. :-)

> > > (...all you coreutils folks will start to recognize the trend...)
> > > I am trying to build m4 on Tandem NSK/OSS. OOTB, it does not build
> > > because 'configure' sees that OSS has the 'long long' (64-bit int)
> > > type. However it does *not* have an unsigned version thereof.
>
> Would this be m4 1.4.7, or a CVS build (either head or branch-1_4)?
> Although I'm guessing it is the release tarball.

Yes, it is the 1.4.7 release tarball. I am generally trying to stick to 
release/stable tarballs since the point of the exercise is to get 
production copies of the software installed. I know, that's bad of me, I 
should be trying CVS when things go wrong. :-)

> Would you like me to
> give you an off-list URL to my latest release candidate for 1.4.8, and
> give that a run on NSK before I finalize 1.4.8?

That would be great, thanks!

> The snapshot will have
> up-to-date gnulib files, so whatever has been fixed in gnulib with regards
> to long long will automatically be picked up; 1.4.7 was released before
> you started reporting the horrendous behavior of NSK.

I know, that's why I didn't even try to compile lib/ as-is, I stole the 
lib/ from coreutils-6.4 :-). Will 'up to date' include Paul's patch as 
of last night, and also the patch in 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-10/msg00140.html>?

> > Anyway, here is something that doesn't live in lib/: in src/builtin.c I
> > am tripping the 'platform macro not defined' warning... apparently UNIX
> > is not defined in my environment.
>
> Here, the snapshot may have already solved this as well, as I rearranged
> the order of the platform detection macros due to another bug against 1.4.7.

Ok, I'll wait and try your snapshot then. For now I have a working 1.4.7 
installed; I'll ignore 'right' fixes for the outstanding problems (I put 
a lot of '#if 0' and '#if 1's in what I actually built :-)) until I can 
try your 1.4.8.

Also, no need waste a post replying to your other reply (re: CC-ing 
lists), but thanks for the info.

--
Matthew
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