Re: Still with the Java testsuite failures

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:26:23AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
> 
> Zack> I am still observing ~800 spurious failures in the Java testsuite.
> Zack> This is the mainline [ ... ]
> 
> I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't been looking at the
> trunk at all.  There are a few reasons: it couldn't bootstrap Java for
> a while (more than a week), I have limited time right now for Java
> hacking, and there are gcc 3.0 issues that are more important.

Fair enough.

> Zack> This is the same problem the objc test suite had a couple of weeks
> Zack> back.  Somewhere, LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be augmented with the gcc
> Zack> build directory.
> 
> It might be appropriate to fix this in dejagnu.  It looks like dejagnu
> already handles this stuff sometimes.  However, that would be the
> route of maximal pain.  So instead I've come up with this patch, which
> works for me.  Could you try it?

Sure.  I'll run a build overnight and report tomorrow morning.

> Zack> jc1: No such file or directory: can't open ^?ELF^A^A^A
> Zack> This looks like a serious driver or spec bug.
> 
> I'm guessing this is related to Per's changes to the driver.  These
> changes are only on the trunk.  I'm afraid I definitely won't be
> looking at this in the near future.  Per checked in some patches in
> this area tonight; maybe one of them fixes the problem.

Okay.  Here's hoping.

zw