Testing Framework Bugs?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:39:43PM +1000, Greg Schafer wrote:
> Hello gcc hackers
> 
> Anyone else seen this? Apologies if it's a known phenomenon.
> 
> While running the tests I have noticed some false negatives
> for example:-
> 
> FAIL: gcc.dg/sequence-pt-1.c sequence point warning (test for warnings, line 66)
> FAIL: gcc.dg/sequence-pt-1.c (test for excess errors)
> 
> When I look at the log file, I can see where the problem is:-
> 
> /usr/src/gcc-3.2/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/sequence-pt-1.c:65: warning: operation on `a' may be undefined
> /usr/src/gcc-3.2/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/sequ
> 
> See how the last line is chomped?
> 
> When I run the test from the command line, I get the expected output.
> 
> This is i686-pc-linux-gnu with latest stable tools, glibc, kernel etc.
> tcl, expect and cvs version of dejagnu.
> 
> Anyone have any insight to this? Is my setup broken? If so, what may be
> the cause?

All releases of expect, except for the one in the current RedHat
rawhide which I was told had my patched applied, are broken for
dejagnu. Try my latest patch at

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310

It should fix your problem.


H.J.