Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure

[Nicolas Joly]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:38:59PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Nicolas Joly wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:00:16PM CEST:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:37:27AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Nicolas Joly wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:02:32AM CEST:
> > > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:22:37PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > OK to apply this patch to branch-2-0 and HEAD, and then backport to
> > > > > branch-1-5?
> 
> > Ok, with the patch applied, both libtool-1.5.18 and branch-1-5 are
> > fine: All 112 tests passed.
> 
> Applied the first patch below to HEAD, branch-2-0, the second to
> branch-1-5.

Thanks a lot.

> > > > Unfortunately, i was unable to bootstrap libtool HEAD on my Tru64 unix
> > > > workstation. Next step was to bootstrap it on another machine
> > > > (NetBSD/amd64); back to the Tru64 machine ... another failure.
> > > 
> > > that just helped us find more HEAD bug(s).  :-/
> > > 
> > > First, could you post the exact output of `bootstrap' on Tru64?
> > 
> > I must have done something weird; `./boostrap' now works ... and
> > `./configure' too. But print problems arise with the make command :
> 
> Since this is not fixed yet, here's at least a workaround: specify
> either one (or both) of CONFIG_SHELL and ECHO resp. lt_ECHO (branch-1-5
> resp. branch-2-0/HEAD) while configuring.  CONFIG_SHELL needs to be done
> like so:
> 
>   CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/foosh /bin/foosh path/to/configure [OPTIONS..]
> 
> and you should provide an echo which does not interpret backslashes
> (one of `echo', `/bin/echo', `print -r', `printf %s\\n' should usually
> do).

In the mean time, i tested the solution where `print -r' and `ksh'
tests are swapped (attached patch). It seems to go a little further
(no more `print' error messages), but seems to fail in another ksh
problem/bug :

[...]
libtool: compile:  cc "-DHAVE_CONFIG_H=<config.h>" -DLTDL -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. 
-I./libltdl -g -c -MD loaders/dlopen.c -o dlopen.o >/dev/null 2>&1
/bin/ksh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link cc  -g -module -avoid-version  -o 
dlopen.la  dlopen.lo  
../libtool[24]: invalid multibyte character
../libtool[6]: invalid multibyte character
../libtool[2312]: invalid multibyte character
libtool: link: invalid operation mode `link'
libtool: link: Try `libtool --help --mode=link' for more information.
../libtool[7679]: invalid multibyte character
../libtool[7679]: invalid multibyte character
../libtool[7679]: invalid multibyte character
[...]
../libtool[7679]: invalid multibyte character
../libtool[7679]: invalid multibyte character
gmake[3]: *** [dlopen.la] Segmentation fault
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/njoly/temp/libtool/libltdl'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.