bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Stump
I'm trying to run autoconf on darwin, and it requires autoconf-2.64. When I run it I wind up with extra lines in the resulting configure file: Index: configure === --- configure (revision 170335) +++ configure (working copy) @@

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/22/2011 03:49 AM, Mike Stump wrote: > I'm trying to run autoconf on darwin, and it requires autoconf-2.64. Have you tried with autoconf 2.68? > When I run it I wind up with extra lines in the resulting configure file: > > Index: configure >

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Stump
On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/22/2011 03:49 AM, Mike Stump wrote: >> I'm trying to run autoconf on darwin, and it requires autoconf-2.64. > > Have you tried with autoconf 2.68? No... [ pause ] I ripped out the require lines and tried with 2.68, same issue. > If you want

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/22/2011 11:43 AM, Mike Stump wrote: >> Oh, you could have mentioned that you were trying to run autoconf on gcc >> to begin with! Indeed, regenerating configure files for gcc requires >> some specific steps; but those steps are better documented by asking on >> the gcc lists rather than here

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Stump
On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Hmm, can you point to a URL of the web archive of that thread, to see if > I can glean anything from that discussion? http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01393.html

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-m4] On 02/22/2011 01:38 PM, Mike Stump wrote: > On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Hmm, can you point to a URL of the web archive of that thread, to see if >> I can glean anything from that discussion? > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01393.html Accord

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Stump
On Feb 22, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > If the problem is reliably caused by the version of m4, then can you do > a git bisect on m4 sources to pinpoint a particular m4 revision where > the problem first appears? It is, but no, I'm kinda tied up with work right now, so I can't commit to

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-22 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On 02/22/2011 04:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: [adding bug-m4] On 02/22/2011 01:38 PM, Mike Stump wrote: On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Hmm, can you point to a URL of the web archive of that thread, to see if I can glean anything from that discussion? http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-pa

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:50:32AM CET: > Unless I did it wrong (entirely possible) - > 76d1c49b8056aaf3f1046ba19c6dea6eb6aecb78 is the first bad commit - I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at 5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead. (You need to u

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:08:07PM CET: > I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at > 5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead. > I'm starting bisect over the gnulib update in above commit now, > which ranges from c0ebdfe226c38c72db7c1944113fd19ff534e362 to >

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2011 02:33 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:08:07PM CET: >> I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at >> 5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead. > >> I'm starting bisect over the gnulib update in above commit now, >> which ran

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Stump
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Are you on a machine with SSE4.2 instructions? Core 2 Duo. darwin10 (aka SnowLeopard). No glibc.

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Mike Stump wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:06:07AM CET: > On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Are you on a machine with SSE4.2 instructions? > > Core 2 Duo. darwin10 (aka SnowLeopard). No glibc. Here no SSE4.2 either. In an up to date build tree of the commit that exposes the

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7834 from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01480.html adding bug-gnulib; followups can elide bug-autoconf ] * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:24:35AM CET: > IOW, it looks like the replacement code

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [ this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7834 > from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01480.html > adding bug-gnulib; followups can elide bug-autoconf ] > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:24:35AM CET: >> IOW, i

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> [ this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7834 >> from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01480.html >> adding bug-gnulib; followups can elide bug-autoconf ] >> >> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Feb 24, 2011

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >>> [ this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/7834 >>> from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-02/msg01480.html >>> adding bug-gnulib; followups can elide bug-autoconf ] >>> >>> * Ralf Wildenh

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, Here's a much-reduced test case for the short-needle case: const char *needle = ".d."; const char *haystack = "..d."; const char* p = strstr (haystack, needle); ASSERT (p && p - haystack == 1); Interestingly, it doesn't trigger a failure in glibc's slightly different impleme

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/23/2011 02:33 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:08:07PM CET: >> I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at >> 5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead. Thankfully, 'git describe 5e763da' in m4.git states: v1.4.15-3-g5e763da That is

Re: bug in autoconf-2.64

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:52:22AM CET: > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:08:07PM CET: > >> I can confirm the issue, but my bisect ended at > >> 5e763da323f3927159b6c151f186569a9929ddbe instead. > > Thankfully, 'git describe 5e763da' in m4.git states: > > v