dejagnu-1.4.4 make check failure

"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am trying to compile dejagnu-1.4.4 on my system (basically a Mandrake 
Linux 10.0, but with several updated packages), but when I try to run the 
testsuite I encounter some unexpetected failures:

Test Run By root on Sat Nov 12 22:32:19 2005
Native configuration is i686-pc-linux-gnu

                 ===  tests ===

Schedule of variations:
     unix

Running target unix
Using /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/../config/base-config.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file.
Using /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/config/default.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file.
Running /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/libdejagnu/tunit.exp ...
FAIL: Pass message
FAIL: Fail message
FAIL: Untested message
FAIL: Unresolved message
Running /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/runtest.all/libs.exp ...
Running /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/runtest.all/options.exp ...
Running /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/runtest.all/stats-sub.exp ...
Running /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite/runtest.all/stats.exp ...

                 ===  Summary ===

# of expected passes            59
# of unexpected failures        4
make[5]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite'
make[4]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite'
make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4/testsuite'
make[2]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/dejagnu-1.4.4'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1


I saw a similar report for a Solaris system in the archives, which 
included a patch, but there was no reply to indicate if that was an 
appropriate fix or not.

I checked the Mandriva Linux dejagnu sources and they simply ignore all 
make ckeck errors when building the package. Is this really something I 
can ignore ? I realise it has something to do with the libstdc++ version 
unit.cc is compiled with (I use gcc-3.4.4), but is this something that 
affects only the testsuite, or does it affect dejagnu itself ?


Regards,

Theodoros Kalamatianos
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