gcc 4.2.0, r120684 backport and Process_1/Process_5

Thu May 17 15:43:00 GMT 2007

Jack Howarth wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the expected testsuite results
> are for libjava on i686-apple-darwin8 with current gcc trunk?

I always expect zero FAILs, but I have never run the testsuite on 
i686-apple-darwin8 either.
> I backported the changes in r120684 to the release gcc 4.2.0...
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-05/msg00437.html
>> and it reduced the testsuite failures from 90 to 27. However I now
> see a single new failure for Process_5. On powerpc-apple-darwin8
> the same changes introduces a single failure for Process_1 instead.
> Interestingly on powerpc-apple-darwin8,

The process tests rely on a couple of things. The first is that signals 
and threads are posix like. The second is that 'sleep' and 'echo' are 
in the PATH and have posix semantics.
You could run the tests by hand and report the output. That would help 
us better understand what is happening.
David Daney