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

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> "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.

Good. That is the same patch. I will file a bug report against expect.


H.J.