Hi all. I tried building gettext-0.19.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (PPC,G5/Quad-Core).
let cpucount=2*`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` pmake="make -j$cpucount" cd "$HOME/open-source" curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.3.tar.gz tar -xzf gettext-0.19.3.tar.gz cd gettext-0.19.3 ./configure && $pmake && $pmake check && sudo $pmake install && echo "Success" || echo "Failed" The above fails at "make check" (I've tried with and without parallel-build. I've done the 'make/$pmake check' 3 times and all tests, except 'lang-bash' passes: ... ... PASS: lang-c PASS: lang-c++ PASS: lang-objc PASS: lang-sh FAIL: lang-bash PASS: lang-python-1 PASS: lang-python-2 ... ... ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for gettext-tools 0.19.3 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 391 # PASS: 371 # SKIP: 19 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 I'm using the following autotool versions (upgraded from the stock Mac OS X): m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 automake (GNU automake) 1.14 libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 -And my bash version (as shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.8): GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) ... So I did a grep -R 'lang-bash' * and found the gettext-tools/tests/Makefile; in there, I looked for lang-bash and found lang-bash.log: So I looked for this file and compared it to some of the other lang-*.log files. Here's a hexdump ... $ hexdump -C lang-bash.log 00000000 31 63 31 0a 3c 20 c2 ab 56 6f 74 72 65 20 63 6f |1c1.< «Votre co| 00000010 6d 6d 61 6e 64 65 2c 20 73 27 69 6c 20 76 6f 75 |mmande, s'il vou| 00000020 73 20 70 6c 61 69 74 c2 bb 2c 20 64 69 74 20 6c |s plait», dit l| 00000030 65 20 67 61 72 c3 a7 6f 6e 2e 0a 2d 2d 2d 0a 3e |e garçon..---.>| 00000040 20 ab 56 6f 74 72 65 20 63 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 65 | ?Votre commande| 00000050 2c 20 73 27 69 6c 20 76 6f 75 73 20 70 6c 61 69 |, s'il vous plai| 00000060 74 bb 2c 20 64 69 74 20 6c 65 20 67 61 72 e7 6f |t?, dit le gar?o| 00000070 6e 2e 0a |n..| Even though the tests fail, I've proceeded with $pmake install, which succeeds. Now, my question is: Will this affect other builds that depend on gettext ? (I do not expect it, as I understand the test has to do with 'bash', but I'd like to get this confirmed, before I make one of my build-scripts public). Love Jens
