Re: libtool-2.4.2.418 released [alpha]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Tim,

> On 6 Nov 2013, at 11:20, Tim Mooney <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.4.2.418.
> 
>> This is a preliminary alpha release to begin platform testing in
>> preparation for the next stable release.
> 
> I built 2.4.2.418 on x86_64-pc-solaris2.11 (OpenIndiana 151a8) with
> the Oracle Studio 12.3 toolchain.  There was one unexpected failure
> in the new test suite:
> 
> 21: quote shell meta-characters in filenames        FAILED (libtool.at:120)

Yes, I'm seeing this failure on quite a few of my test architectures too, but
haven't been able to get to the bottom of it. If you have any insight, I'd be
very happy to hear about it.

> If I re-run the test-suite with --verbose, test #21 shows:
> 
> 21. libtool.at:60: testing quote shell meta-characters in filenames ...
> ./libtool.at:102: $LIBTOOL -n --mode=$mode $preargs $preflag"$flag:test"
> $postargs
> stdout:
> libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
> libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> ./libtool.at:106: grep "$mode:.*$match_preflag$flag:test " stdout
> stdout:
> libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
> libtool: compile:  cc -c -DVAR=:test foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> ./libtool.at:116: $LIBTOOL -n --mode=$mode $preargs $preflag"$flag\\:test\\" 
> $postargs
> stdout:
> libtool: compile:  cc -c "-DVAR=\\:test\\" foo.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
> libtool: compile:  cc -c "-DVAR=\\:test\\" foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> ./libtool.at:120: grep 
> "$mode:.*$match_preflag"'"\?'"$flag\\\\\\\\:test\\\\\\\\"'"\? ' stdout
> stdout:
> ./libtool.at:120: exit code was 1, expected 0
> 21. libtool.at:60:  FAILED (libtool.at:120)
> 
> 
> Let me know what other useful information I can provide.

A fix? ;-)

> There's a patch after my signature that alters the README to provide
> the actual name of the log file from the test suite.

Thanks, I'll apply and push that presently.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)