[Tcsh] [UCE] tcsh-6.24.08 is now available

[Kimmo Suominen]

A full output from a non-interactive build attempt (builds ok, 2 tests
fail unexpectedly):
https://www.netbsd.org/~kim/tcsh/output.amd64.txt

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 11:47, Luke Mewburn <luke at mewburn.net> wrote:
>
> [resent to the list from my subscribed email address]
>
> Hi Nelson,
>
> Without more context (e.g. the relevant lines from testsuite.log) it's
> hard to know what's causing the problem for your build lab.
>
>
>   |     117: Comments FAILED (lexical.at:46)
>
> This is running
>         tcsh -f -c 'echo #no comment'
> (using autotest's quadrigraph '@%:@' to escape '#', as can be seen
> if you examine tests/testsuite around line 9216).
>
>
>   |     181: $ edit   FAILED (variables.at:533)
>
> This is running
>         TERM=something tcsh -f -c 'echo $?edit'
> and expecting the $edit variable to be set.
>
>
> Is tests/testsuite being regenerated as part of your build process
> because the Makefile considers the tests/testsuite to be out of date
> with respect to its dependencies?
> If so, what's the version of autom4te that you have installed?
>
>
> It _may_ be that the build needs tweaking to avoid the automatic
> regeneration of tests/testsuite (and other autoconf / autoheader
> generated files), and instead treat the build more like an automake
> project with AM_MAINTAINER_MODE(), where the "developer" level
> stuff isn't regenerated automatically. This depends upon the eventual
> resolution of your issue, however.
>
>
> cheers,
> Luke.
>
>
> On 23-04-10 15:00, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>   | Normally, most builds of tcsh-6.*.* are successful in my test lab of
>   | 100+ Unix environments covering the major CPU families, and the major
>   | O/S families.  They were for tcsh-6.24.07, but for tcsh-6.24.08, 98
>   | out of 105 builds report the same two failures:
>   |
>   |     117: Comments FAILED (lexical.at:46)
>   |     181: $ edit   FAILED (variables.at:533)
>   |
>   | The other 7 builds did not complete, for unrelated reasons.
>   |
>   | I'm therefore not installing this build on our systems, in the
>   | expectation that there will be fixes for those failures.
>   |
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