Static build on Linux against musl/netbsd-curses: builds but fails 4 tests

[AleksejK1]

Trying to get a static build of yash. Building against musl and netbsd-curses (it worked with bash). It builds but make check produces 4 errors:

curl -O http://ftp.barfooze.de/pub/sabotage/tarballs/netbsd-curses-0.3.2.tar.xz
tar -xf netbsd-curses-0.3.2.tar.xz
make -C netbsd-curses-0.3.2 CC="musl-gcc" LDFLAGS="-static" all-static
make -C netbsd-curses-0.3.2 PREFIX="netbsd-curses" DESTDIR="/tmp/" install-stalibs
make -C netbsd-curses-0.3.2 PREFIX="netbsd-curses" DESTDIR="/tmp/" install-headers
curl -LO https://github.com/magicant/yash/releases/download/2.59/yash-2.59.tar.xz
tar -xf yash-2.59.tar.xz
cd yash-2.59
export CC=musl-gcc LDLIBS="-lterminfo" CFLAGS="-Os -static" LDFLAGS="-L/tmp/netbsd-curses/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/tmp/netbsd-curses/include"
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-array --enable-dirstack --enable-double-bracket --enable-help --enable-history --enable-lineedit --enable-nls --enable-printf --enable-socket --enable-test --enable-ulimit
make -j $(nproc)
make check
grep -i error tests/summary.log
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: fnmatch-p.tst:252: brackets
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: fnmatch-p.tst:284: brackets and quotations
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: bracket-y.tst:69: bracket pattern with binary primary =
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: bracket-y.tst:167: bracket pattern with binary primary =~
# ERROR:       4

Rebuilding with --disable-double-bracket and --disable-test reduces errors to 2:

make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-array --enable-dirstack --disable-double-bracket --enable-help --enable-history --enable-lineedit --enable-nls --enable-printf --enable-socket --disable-test --enable-ulimit
make -j $(nproc)
make check
grep -i error tests/summary.log
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: fnmatch-p.tst:252: brackets
# % standard error diff:
# %%% ERROR[FAILED]: fnmatch-p.tst:284: brackets and quotations

[magicant]

Thanks for the report, but musl is known to fail some tests due to its regex implementation lacking collating symbol support.

[AleksejK1]

Is it possible to disable something at ./configure to have make check without errors? I'm only interested in yash as interactive shell, don't care about POSIX compliance or running scripts with it.

[AleksejK1]

Or maybe link regex functionality that yash needs from some other library (not glibc)?

[magicant]

I understand you're aiming for a clean test run, but since you're only using yash interactively, and the test failures are due to musl's limited regex support (not yash bugs), it's probably safe to ignore them. That said, there’s no ./configure option to disable relevant tests specifically, unfortunately.

[AleksejK1]

Got it, thanks Watanabe. No further questions from me on this issue.

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On 2025-07-03, WATANABE Yuki wrote: magicant left a comment (magicant/yash#180) I understand you're aiming for a clean test run, but since you're only using yash interactively, and the test failures are due to musl's limited regex support (not yash bugs), it's probably safe to ignore them. That said, there’s no `./configure` option to disable relevant tests specifically, unfortunately. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #180 (comment) You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>