Re: GNU make 4.2.91 release candidate available

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 07:48 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Am 22.09.2019 um 23:42 schrieb Paul Smith <address@hidden>:
> > On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 09:40 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > > Additionally, I have two failed tests on Solaris 10 borg Sparc
> > > x86:
> > 
> > The wildcard issue is due to the old glob.c implementation in GNU
> > make.  I don't know if I can fix that before the next release. 
> > It's not a regression, however: this is just a new test that we
> > didn't used to run.  The behavior of GNU make is the same as it was
> > in previous releases.
> 
> Maybe it should be then marked as XFAIL? Now the build process stops
> after the testsuite because of the failures.

It won't fail on systems that provide GNU libc.  It only fails on
systems which need to use GNU make's built-in glob.

Unfortunately there's no such thing in the GNU make test suite as
XFAIL.  I could skip these tests if we are using the built-in glob,
that's all I can do.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the build process stops"... there's no
build process that involves running the tests as part a pipeline, at
least none provided by make itself.  Maybe this is an extra build
process that you are using locally?