4.1.2 make check errors

[emilyaviva]

Compiling 4.1.2 on OS X El Capitan (10.11) from source, with no options in ./configure other than --prefix=$HOME/sw, everything seems to compile OK, but then when I run make check I get two errors. See attached screenshot.

https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T039KG69K-F0C1VEZNG/untitled.tiff

The former error (something about a socket) appears to goes away if you run make clean before you run make in a newly expanded directory (we also tried this on Linux Arch and it runs make check without any problems). But the Unicode-type error seems persistent on Mac and I am not really sure how to approach it.

[Trott]

@emilyaviva Can you put your screenshot somewhere that doesn't require a login to see it?

Without being able to see it, I strongly suspect that the issue you are running into is #2165 which was fixed in 81e98e9. That fix, though, landed the day after 4.1.2 was released. So, your options are:

• Patch that fix into your source code.
• Read OS X 10.11: system calls return non-normalized unicode strings #2165 and decide that you really don't need to worry about the one test failure on OS X El Capitan. (This is probably the option you want to go with. The fix will be in the next release, and it's just a fix to a test.)
• Compile against master instead of the 4.1.2 source.
• Compile on something that isn't OS X El Capitan.

[emilyaviva]

Photo publicly available:

http://imgur.com/iPMAV1E

Looks like it's ok if I just ignore this until the next release, I suppose.

[Trott]

Yes, I believe so. I'm going to close this, but if you find to the contrary, by all means re-open this.