Re: m4 1.4.19 check always fails (198.sysval)

[Eric Blake]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 09:02:59PM +0200, Ferdinand Thiessen wrote:
> Hello,
> I try to build m4 version 1.4.19, but when running make check it always
> fails.
> I can reproduce it with different systems, tested it on openSUSE
> Tumbleweed, Leap 15.2 and 15.3.
> 
> 
> > Checking ./198.sysval
> > @ ../doc/m4.texi:6751: Origin of test
> > ./198.sysval: stderr mismatch
> > --- m4-tmp.8164/m4-xerr     2021-05-31 17:09:06.248513843 +0000
> > +++ m4-tmp.8164/m4-err      2021-05-31 17:09:06.232513843 > +0000
> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> > +sh: line 1: 10151 Killed                  /bin/sh -c 'kill -9 $$'
> > Checking ./199.mkstemp

Known issue, and due to a bug in the testsuite and not in m4 itself.
It will be fixed for 1.4.20.

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