Re: [PATCH] testsuite quick fixes

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Richard Clamp wrote:

> More progress.  perl -e is still segfaulting, but that's just
> happening within the call to mktemp that the -e causes so I think
> that's an easy thing to fix.

If you pass the -fwritable-strings to gcc that seems to solve the

>
> If I build against the system malloc (-Uusemymalloc) everything
> suddenly gets a lot better.  It might be fun for someone to see where
> the bitrot is in malloc.c, but mostly it just hurts my brain.
>
> make test runs, with a few small fixes, mostly to do with expecting
> '.' to be in $PATH, and relying on there being an /etc/termcap, both
> of which are less likely these days.
>
> 7 test scripts still fail, but they seem like real bugs rather than
> just dodgyness in the test harness.

With the above flag to gcc I am down to 2 errors in the test harness.

One in t/comp.decl, the last two format do not write and one in t/op.each
which causes a core dump, it seems to be a memory allocation issue.

Garth


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