test failures also on NetBSD

[David Relson]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:34:24 +0200
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > FYI, I'm getting the same test failures:
> > 
> > - NetBSD/sparc-1.5
> > - gcc 2.95.3
> > - not using GSL
> > - "make check" in 0.15.3 succeeds
> > - in 0.15.4 t.maildir and t.MH fail
> 
> I suspect that glibc/-lm behaviour differs from BSD libc behaviour.
> Making a majority vote, Linux is wrong. :-P Seriously, I'd have to
> check on Solaris 2.X so as to have a third code base before making
> that call.
> 
> Anyways, as these tests are meant to check if the reader works with MH
> and Maildir, we don't need to care if prbf() differs by DBL_EPSILON/4
> or something, but we can just use some token counts. Which is in CVS
> now.
> 
> Thanks for testing.

To keep my computer busy this morning while I was walking my daughter to
school, I built gcc-2.95.3, ran "make check" using the old t.maildir,
and got the right answer.  So, it looks like the problem is not gcc
compiler version...