Re: git: test suite fails on hppa, in run_with_limited_stack

On 2020-05-15 11:52 p.m., Greg Price wrote:
> Still I'm not sure that that situation is helped by putting the `uname
> -m` inside this case. This is the catchall `*)` case after looking
> only for MINGW, CYGWIN, and FreeBSD, and those all appear to have
> pretty sane `uname -m` behavior. (On FreeBSD, `uname -p` gets a bit
> more specific but `uname -m` is already sane; I found the report here:
>   https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5766
> informative.) If any of the OSes where config.guess has to do more
> work were to get this far in building and testing Git, they'd end up
> running any code we stick at this spot anyway. So I think it still
> makes more sense to put the new `case` next to the existing one.
>
> One other thought I have from that config.guess example, though --
> there are some cases there like this:
>
>     parisc64:Linux:*:* | hppa64:Linux:*:*)
>         echo hppa64-unknown-linux-"$LIBC"
>         exit ;;
>
> That suggests to me that the condition should perhaps look for "hppa", too, like
>
> parisc* | hppa*)
>     test_set_prereq HPPA
>     ;;
>
> What do you think?
I think that's fine.

Because git is important, Helge and I have been building it manually and largely ignoring test failures.  This
will help distinguish architectural limitations from new bugs.

Regards,
Dave