Spurious testsuite failures

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:48:41AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > From looking at the testsuite log it seems that some error messages don't
> > make it to the log...

> > This turned out to be Sun BUG 4927647. Which is triggered by expect.
> > No patch availiable as of today :-(

Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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.

The latest expect version is 5.40.  Is the patch still needed?  I haven't
seen this symptom on Solaris myself (though I rarely build CVS versions on
Solaris).