Strange testsuite behavior on AMD64, more info

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:22:07PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> I see a thousands of failures reported like this one:
> 
>    Testing gcc.c-torture/execute/builtins/abs-1.c,  -O0
>    doing compile
>    pid is 8273 -8273
>    output is
>    spawning command /home/scott/projects/gnu/build/gcc/testsuite/abs-1.x0
>    spawn -open file6 failed, 1 fdopen: bad file number, fdopen: bad file 
>    number
>        while executing
>    "spawn -leaveopen file6"
>    FAIL: gcc.c-torture/execute/builtins/abs-1.c execution,  -O0

It would seem that the expect program is not working right, it seems to
be failing to attach to the spawned program.

There's a small set of tests in the expect distribution, you might try those.