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[DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: ehrhardt at mathematik dot uni-ulm dot de
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:27:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
As discussed on the mailing lists...
Ok for mainline?
Thanks,
--Kaveh
Index: install.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.321
diff -u -p -r1.321 install.texi
--- install.texi 7 Oct 2004 12:14:45 -0000 1.321
+++ install.texi 13 Oct 2004 19:20:18 -0000
@@ -3506,6 +3506,17 @@ There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (10563
108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
+Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
+related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
+itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
+program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
+causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
+testsuite failures appear.
+
+There are patches for Solaris 8 (117350-12 or newer for SPARC,
+117351-12 or newer for Intel) and Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
+SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
+
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