Spurious testsuite failures on multi-cpu sparc-solaris2.9

[Dan Kegel]

Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> I'm trying to test GCC on a 4 cpu sparc-sun-solaris2.9 box using
> expect-5.42.1, tcl8.4.7 and dejagnu-1.4.4.  I'm getting lots of
> spurious testsuite failures probably related to the solaris kernel bug
> mentioned here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-04/msg01480.html
> 
> Does any one know if bug 4927647 is addressed in any patch from Sun
> yet?  Is the expect patch mentioned here helpful at all?
> http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/expect-5.39/pr12096.patch

Go ahead and try the expect patch, it's got some chance of fixing
your problem.  If that doesn't do it, I guess it's the Solaris bug...

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