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

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:28:00PM -0400, 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?

According to SUN a fix has been integrated into Sol10 and a patch for
Sol9 will be release RSN. We were provided with a T-patch (raw binaries
not an officially released patch) in response to my bug report.

> Is the expect patch mentioned here helpful at all?
> http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/expect-5.39/pr12096.patch

It didn't fix things for me, but it doesn't hurt either.

    regards   Christian

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