Re: [sr #110267] Testsuite regressions from 2.69 on Solaris 10 (SPARC)

Hi Zack,

Am 16.07.2020 um 23:10 schrieb Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>:
> I've pushed a partial fix for this.  As of revision 71b5037a, tests 365 367
> 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 should pass.

Excellent, thanks for your effort!

> 209 appears to be an intermittent race condition in the parallel testsuite
> driver, not Solaris-specific; I will look into it further but it only causes
> cosmetic problems (the test fails because it's checking the cosmetics of
> testsuite output).
> 
> The remaining failures (221 222 260 307) all appear to be problems either with
> Sun's compilers or Sun's `make`, and I can't reproduce these on the only
> Solaris 10 host I have access to (gcc210.fsffrance.org, aka
> gcc-solaris10.baltic-online.de) because neither /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc nor any
> command named `make` is installed.  (The problems do _not_ reproduce with
> /opt/solstudio12.2/bin/cc and /opt/solstudio12.2/bin/dmake.)  Would you mind
> digging into these a little deeper?  I think the `make`-related failures at
> least should be easy (something is setting MAKEFLAGS to a garbage value?)

The machines gcc210 and gcc211 also happen to be mine and I installed
Sun Studio 12 and 12u1 now on gcc210 for completeness. Feel free to
ping me if you need anything else on these machines.


Best regards

  — Dago

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