Still with the Java testsuite failures

Thu Mar 15 23:24:00 GMT 2001

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:26:23AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
>> Zack> I am still observing ~800 spurious failures in the Java testsuite.
> Zack> This is the mainline [ ... ]
>> I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't been looking at the
> trunk at all. There are a few reasons: it couldn't bootstrap Java for
> a while (more than a week), I have limited time right now for Java
> hacking, and there are gcc 3.0 issues that are more important.

Fair enough.
> Zack> This is the same problem the objc test suite had a couple of weeks
> Zack> back. Somewhere, LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be augmented with the gcc
> Zack> build directory.
>> It might be appropriate to fix this in dejagnu. It looks like dejagnu
> already handles this stuff sometimes. However, that would be the
> route of maximal pain. So instead I've come up with this patch, which
> works for me. Could you try it?

Sure. I'll run a build overnight and report tomorrow morning.
> Zack> jc1: No such file or directory: can't open ^?ELF^A^A^A
> Zack> This looks like a serious driver or spec bug.
>> I'm guessing this is related to Per's changes to the driver. These
> changes are only on the trunk. I'm afraid I definitely won't be
> looking at this in the near future. Per checked in some patches in
> this area tonight; maybe one of them fixes the problem.

Okay. Here's hoping.
zw