jacks oddities

Tue Jul 13 07:31:00 GMT 2004

Hi Ranjit
>-- Original Message --

>This has worked quite well for me so far. If your setup is
>the same and it doesn't work for you quite as well, we
>need to figure out what's going wrong.

I figured it out, late last night.
And I'm working on a fix.
The issue is this, I have tclsh8.4 and tclsh on my darwin box. Tclsh is
a sym link to tclsh8.4.
Now in the jacks script there is an explicit call to tclsh8.3!!!!!
So every time I launched it with make check I only analyzed the exisiting
gcj.log instead of running the suite from scratch.
Running the suite with 'tclsh jacks gcj' works fine ....
The idea is now to override the jacks call in jacks.exp like this:
- catch {exec ./jacks gcj} msg
+ set tcl_version [info tclversion]
+ catch {exec tclsh$tcl_version jacks gcj} msg
But here I have to take care of all the corner cases we could run into.
(Version numbers ....)
>Yes: I don't know whether to exclaim "D'oh!" or "Wow!". ;-)
>>I have verified that your patch indeed gets us 58 XPASSes
>(58 testcases out of 68 in 4.7.10) and no FAILs.

Yes, you're right, only 58.
>>Since Tom has basically approved it, please check in
>your patch to jacks.exp as well as jacks.xfail.

I will as soon as I get a suitable fix for the above.
Regards,
Andreas