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Re: Spurious testsuite failures
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> I'm getting lots of testsuite failures on sparc-sun-solaris. However,
> these failures don't seem to be consistent over testsuit runs. I ran
> the g++ testsuite twice in a row (with the same compiler!) once with 119
> failures and a second time with only 50 failures. Closer inspection shows
> that only 8 failures are common between the two consecutive runs.
>
> From looking at the testsuite log it seems that some error messages don't
> make it to the log. All of the suprious failures are either
> "test for error/warning" or "test for excess errors" The latter happens
> if previous error message were missed and the compiler still exits with
> a nonzero exit status.
This turned out to be Sun BUG 4927647. Which is triggered by expect.
No patch availiable as of today :-(
regards Christian
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