Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.0.93 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On 1 February 2016 at 15:08, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> No test failures on these systems:
>    Fedora-21, ppc64le
>    Fedora-20, ppc64
>    Ubuntu-14, aarch64
>    OpenSolaris 5.10/5.11 on i86pc and suv4u/sub4v
>    OpenBSD 5.8, amd64
>    FreeBSD 10.1, amd64
>    NetBSD 7.0, amd64
>    Debian-7/kFreeBSD-9,amd64
>    GNU Hurd 0.7, i686
>    Ubuntu-14.04, amd64
>    Ubuntu-15.04 (also on i686)
>    Debian 8.1, 7.6, amd64
>    Fedora 23, 22, 21, amd64
>    openSUSE 42.1, 13.1, amd64
>    CentOS 7, amd64
>

Thank you for testing it and reporting it; it's reassuring.

> On AIX-7.1,power7, compilation fails with:
> ====
>         gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2   -o ginfo dir.o display.o dribble.o
> echo-area.o filesys.o footnotes.o  indices.o info-utils.o info.o  infodoc.o
> infokey.o infomap.o  infopath.o m-x.o man.o  nodemenu.o nodes.o search.o
> session.o signals.o tag.o  terminal.o tilde.o variables.o  window.o doc.o
> ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a -lcurses -lintl -liconv
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_init
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_destroy
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_lock
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_unlock
>         ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> information.

Don't know why because it doesn't use threads as far as I know, but
it's not very important.

>
> On Minix 3.3.0, compilation fails with:
> ===
>         cc  -g -O2   -o pseudotty pseudotty.o ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a
> -lcurses
>         clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-g'
>         pseudotty.o: In function `main':
>
> /tmp/texinfo-6.0.93.XXXXXX.000260aa/texinfo-6.0.93/info/pseudotty.c:59:
> undefined reference to `grantpt'
>
> /tmp/texinfo-6.0.93.XXXXXX.000260aa/texinfo-6.0.93/info/pseudotty.c:59:
> undefined reference to `unlockpt'
>
> /tmp/texinfo-6.0.93.XXXXXX.000260aa/texinfo-6.0.93/info/pseudotty.c:62:
> undefined reference to `ptsname'

It must be missing some of those functions for pseudoterminals.

> P.S.
> please note, I do not suggest these errors (on minix/aix) are show-stoppers
> and need to be fixed before a new version release - it's simply a result of
> automated testing on multiple systems.
>

I agree.