Spurious testsuite failures

[Dan Kegel]

Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> 
>>I'm getting lots of testsuite failures on sparc-sun-solaris. However,
>>these failures don't seem to be consistent over testsuit runs. I ran
>>the g++ testsuite twice in a row (with the same compiler!) once with 119
>>failures and a second time with only 50 failures. Closer inspection shows
>>that only 8 failures are common between the two consecutive runs.
>>
>>From looking at the testsuite log it seems that some error messages don't
>>make it to the log. All of the suprious failures are either
>>"test for error/warning" or "test for excess errors" The latter happens
>>if previous error message were missed and the compiler still exits with
>>a nonzero exit status.
> 
> 
> This turned out to be Sun BUG 4927647. Which is triggered by expect.
> No patch availiable as of today :-(

I beg to differ.  Try building expect from sources yourself
and applying the patch
   http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/expect-5.39/pr12096.patch
That fixes it for me.
- Dan

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