Re: recommended test tool chain for solaris9?

[Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Andreas> Funny fact is, right now I do not see it. But always when I
> Andreas> do a parallel make for example. Or when I have multiple
> Andreas> builds running.
>
> Odd.

The odd thing is, I did it this morning again, a make -j 4 bootstrap ; 
make -k check.
No other build in parallel.
And it went fine. When I have a second bootstrap ongoing then it fails.


> What does `runtest --version' say?  For me:
>
> fleche. runtest --version
> WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
> Expect version is	5.26
> Tcl version is		8.3
> Framework version is	1.4.2.x

[enterprise:~] andreas% runtest --version
WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.
Expect version is       5.38.0
Tcl version is          8.4
Framework version is    1.4.3

I have the same on darwin, but there I only have one CPU ;(

> I don't know whether this is the currently blessed version.  It is
> just what I got out of the src repo the last time I updated and
> rebuilt gdb.

Well, I could rebuild the tools by myself. But last time I did, it 
didn't improve. I did not have these troubles on solaris 8.

> Are you using the same version across all platforms?  If so, maybe
> there is some Tcl bug we're somehow triggering.  (Or maybe there is a
> bug in our test harness -- but I don't see it.)

On darwin yes, on linuxppc they're a bit older.

> You could try something gross, like renaming "x" to something else.
> If there is a stray upvar somewhere (e.g., somewhere deep in dejagnu),
> this would actually help.

As said, I had the same failure on darwin once. But after I got a tuned 
kernel the error went away.
Could try.

But I wonder what other users use, I mailed mmitchell to ask, but no 
response so far. I may should ask Gerald P. Since this machine seems to 
be located in austria ;).

Thanks,
Andreas