Re: [bison 3.1/test suite] all syncline tests failing Windows (illegal characters in test file names)

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Jannick!

> Le 31 oct. 2018 à 19:32, Jannick <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:08:43 +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 08:40:50 +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
>>>>> Was too fast hitting send: I had to adjust the gettext version to
>>>>> 0.19 (from 0.18, in configure.ac) to get the ball rolling.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m a bit lost.
>>>> 
>>>> You are not expected to have to change anything, why did you have to do it?
>>> 
>>> Make complains if the gettext version in configure.ac (0.18) does not match
>>> the system gettext version (which is 0.19 here):
>> 
>> What commands did you run after git clone?  It should be ./bootstrap.
> 
> Yes, with —no-git and a local gnulib directory.

Still, it should work.


> But for now let's focus on bison 3.2.x. I’ll restart the bootstrapping stuff 
> later (which is related to the xsl patch series requiring new gnulib modules)

There’s no hurry for this: I need the FSF papers signed (did you
send them?), and anyway, it should not be part of 3.2, but 3.3.



> ../configure && make runs through in a subdir with the following warnings:
> 
> ../lib/spawn-pipe.c: In function 'create_pipe':
> ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:198:46: warning: passing argument 3 of 'spawnvpe' from 
> incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>       child = spawnvpe (P_NOWAIT, prog_path, (const char **) prog_argv,
>                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from 
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/unistd.h:11,
>                 from ./lib/unistd.h:40,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.h:23,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:27:
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/process.h:196:67: note: expected 
> 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char **'
>   intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const 
> _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
>                                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
> ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:199:25: warning: passing argument 4 of 'spawnvpe' from 
> incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>                         (const char **) environ);
>                         ^
> In file included from 
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/unistd.h:11,
>                 from ./lib/unistd.h:40,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.h:23,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:27:
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/process.h:196:90: note: expected 
> 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char **'
>   intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const 
> _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
>                                                                              
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
> ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:206:53: warning: passing argument 3 of 'spawnvpe' from 
> incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>           child = spawnvpe (P_NOWAIT, prog_argv[0], (const char **) prog_argv,
>                                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from 
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/unistd.h:11,
>                 from ./lib/unistd.h:40,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.h:23,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:27:
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/process.h:196:67: note: expected 
> 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char **'
>   intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const 
> _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
>                                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
> ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:207:29: warning: passing argument 4 of 'spawnvpe' from 
> incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>                             (const char **) environ);
>                             ^
> In file included from 
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/unistd.h:11,
>                 from ./lib/unistd.h:40,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.h:23,
>                 from ../lib/spawn-pipe.c:27:
> C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/process.h:196:90: note: expected 
> 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char **'
>   intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const 
> _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
>                                                                              
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~

These warnings are from gnulib.  If you’d like to fix them,
you should do that there.


> Still the weird skeleton message:
> 
> $ cd src && bison --skeleton
> bison: option requires an argument -- skeleton
> „bison --help“ gibt weitere Informationen.
> 
> Note: This is mixed language.

Not surprising: the bottom one comes from Bison itself, and
it is properly translated, while the first one comes from your
libc, and it is not translated.

> I have various shells on my machine (cygwin, msys2, mingw64, mingw32, ...). 
> Could it be that weirdly locale information from somewhere else is pulled? 
> Here the pure English version. 
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C bison --skeleton
> bison: option requires an argument -- skeleton
> Try 'bison --help' for more information.
> 
> Thanks,
> J.
> 
>