Re: Subject: Kernel bugs that trip expect (Was: Re: 2 new regression on darwin6.1)

[Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at superh dot com>]

"H. J. Lu" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:54:21PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Jim Ingham wrote:
> > >
> > > If you have expect patches have you submitted them back to the expect
> > > maintainers?  This is now hosted at SourceForge.
> > >
> > > This won't help gcc & gdb, because they use a weird hacked version of
> > > expect - the current expect won't run the testsuite correctly.  But if
> > > you have found some Linux bug, you should submit a patch to the
> > > SourceForge patch tracker...
> >
> > I had already downloaded & installed the unaltered expect 5.38.0 .
> > This has stopped expect from hanging, but the semi-random loss of output
> > hasn't improved, if anything, it got worse.
> > And no, I haven't got patches, I'm fishing for clues where to start.
> >
> 
> Try the latest patch from
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310

I get a message that the connection was refused by the server bugzilla.redhat.com .
	
> Let me know if it works for you. If it does, I will file a bug report
> for expect if it hasn't been fixed already.

In Jack Howarth's message in this thread (only by subject, not by reference),
I found the link
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=156854&archive=yes&repeatmerged=yes
and the patch there seems to work.  Running sh64-elf regression tests with this patch
removes 87 spurious failures.

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