M4's output pipe was not being drained upon fatal errors during
scan_skel. As a result, broken-pipe messages from M4 were seen
on at least AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and RHEL4, and this caused a
failure in the test suite. The problem was that, on platforms
where the default disposition for SIGPIPE is ignore instead of
terminate, M4 sometimes saw fwrite fail with errno=EPIPE and
then reported it. However, there's some sort of race condition,
because the new test group occasionally succeeded.
Reported by Albert Chin at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2010-02/msg00004.html>.
There were also problems with the test suite livelocking on
Tru64 5.1b. Reported by Didier Godefroy at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-05/msg00005.html>.
Switching to create_pipe_bidi suggested by Akim Demaille.
To attempt to solve both of these problems, switch to gnulib's
create_pipe_bidi and register M4 process as a slave. Along the
way, clean up file name conflict handling, which was affected by
the broken-pipe problem before the switch.
* NEWS (2.4.2): Document.
* THANKS (Didier Godefroy): Add.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add pipe.
* gnulib: Update to latest to make sure we have all the latest
fixes.
* lib/Makefile.am (libbison_a_SOURCES): Remove subpipe.h and
subpipe.c.
* po/POTFILES.in (lib/subpipe.c): Remove.
* src/files.c (compute_output_file_names): Update invocations
of output_file_name_check.
(output_file_name_check): In the case that the grammar file
would be overwritten, use complain instead of fatal, but replace
the output file name with /dev/null. Use the /dev/null solution
for the case of two conflicting output files as well because it
seems safer in case Bison one day tries to open both files at
the same time.
* src/files.h (output_file_name_check): Update prototype.
* src/output.c (output_skeleton): Use create_pipe_bidi and
wait_subprocess. Assert that scan_skel completely drains the
pipe.
* src/scan-skel.l (at_directive_perform): Update
output_file_name_check invocation.
* tests/output.at (AT_CHECK_CONFLICTING_OUTPUT): Check that the
grammar file actually isn't overwritten.
(Conflicting output files: -o foo.y): Update expected output.
* tests/skeletons.at (Fatal errors but M4 continues producing
output): New test group.
(cherry picked from commit 22cc8d813e)
Conflicts:
NEWS
bootstrap.conf
lib/.cvsignore
lib/.gitignore
m4/.cvsignore
m4/.gitignore
src/output.c
Reported by Eric Blake. See discussions at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-09/msg00008.html>
and
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-10/msg00108.html>.
* HACKING (Release checks): Suggest -DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add all the printf modules
suggested by -DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK. Add realloc-posix as
suggested by -DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK for gnulib's own vasnprintf.c.
(excluded_files): Remove m4/printf-posix.m4.
* tests/atlocal.in (LIBS): As for LDADD in src/Makefile.am, add
lib/libbison.a so gnulib libraries can be linked.
(cherry picked from commit 5c99151aeb)
Conflicts:
lib/.cvsignore
lib/.gitignore
m4/.cvsignore
m4/.gitignore
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add assert module.
* src/system.h (aver): Define as assert, and summarize the
discussion on this issue.
(cherry picked from commit ca01f454f0)
* gnulib: Update to latest.
* lib/.cvsignore, lib/.gitignore, m4/.cvsignore,
* m4/.gitignore: Regen.
* src/symtab.c (symbol_from_uniqstr, semantic_type_from_uniqstr):
Call xalloc_die on hash_insert failures.
Requested by the new __warn_unused_result__ attribute of
hash_insert.
* HACKING (Administrivia): Make the git-merge-changelog notes more
helpful.
(Test suite): Don't say lalr1.cc is not exercised in the test suite.
(Release Procedure): Update for git and add numerous details that were
previously missing.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove Makefile.cfg and Makefile.maint.
* maint.mk (announcement): Don't list bison as a bootstrap tool so
that announcements don't claim we bootstrapped with whatever bison
happened to be in PATH. Add flex as a bootstrap tool.
* Makefile.maint: Remove, previously replaced by maint.mk.
* Makefile.cfg: Remove, and migrate settings to...
* cfg.mk: ... here for the sake of `make announcement'.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add announce-gen.
* README: Say GNU Bison instead of just Bison. Suggested by Karl
Berry.
Reported by Eric Blake at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2008-07/msg00000.html>.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add unsetenv.
* lib/.gitignore, lib/.cvsignore (/unsetenv.c): Add.
* m4/.gitignore, m4/.cvsignore (/environ.m4): Add.
(/setenv.m4): Add.
* src/output.c (output_skeleton): For the m4 invocation, pass -dV as
the first argument because it may become position-dependent, and unset
POSIXLY_CORRECT so Bison's skeletons have access to GNU M4 extensions.
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