Hi Brian, [dropping bug-gnulib] > Le 23 sept. 2021 à 19:54, Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> a > écrit : > > Sorry Akim, > > I thought it was understood as confirmed in my last message.
You might very well have, but I didn't see it. I saw a confirmation of success of a tarball that I interpreted as referring to Bruno's testdir-thread, but maybe you meant bison. > This month I am busy dealing with a number of maintained package upgrade > build and test failures, and at least one other appears to also be due to an > obscure gnulib upgrade, after years of upgrades with at most only the > occasional package tweak required, requiring only basic knowledge of > autotools and none of gnulib! > With each build requiring one or more hours for the package manager to > configure && make && make VPATH install && make check locally, for each arch, > then repeat for confirmation on the CI, it takes up a lot of free time. I sure understand this. > Your interim release includes the gnulib threadlib.m4 patch, so I had to > disable applying that, which is great. Great. Then we have Bison 3.8.2. I'll do that this weekend. > Cygwin only needs the revert-autoconf-upgrade patch, until an experienced > autotools user adopts the autotools as maintainer and provides upgrades. > > The builds and tests run completely, and only the Doxygen tests fail, > although the doc builds work: not a significant concern. I could have a look at that. Please send the logs. Cheers!