Re: Notice: GCC test suite is currently broken in development book

On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 16:51 -0400, Joe Locash wrote:
> 
> On 10/2/24 6:45 AM, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via lfs-dev Mailing 
> List) wrote:
> > Tcl-9.0.0 is a new major version and it contains breaking changes.
> > We've still not fully made Expect adapted and so running GCC test suite
> > will not give any meaningful result.
> > 
> > We'll roll back to Tcl-8 if we cannot resolve the issue.  So for people
> > rolling their system: do not update for now unless you really have a
> > plan to deal with the potential issues downgrading a package on your
> > system.
> > 
> > As always the development book is for development.
> > 
> How do you get to the gcc test suite when expect FTBFS because of the 
> tcl update?

It does not FTBFS.  The patch (expect-5.45.4-gcc14-**2**.patch, the file
name is just misleading... it should have been completely renamed
instead of just bumping -1 to -2) is enough to make it build, but it
just does stupid things at runtime.

See all the discussion in
https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/5570.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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