From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3931 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2006 13:36:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 3915 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2006 13:36:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.203) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:36:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 13773 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2006 13:36:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?69.104.56.203?) (timothyprince@sbcglobal.net@69.104.56.203 with plain) by smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 2006 13:36:53 -0000 Message-ID: <449BEE73.50400@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:36:00 -0000 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@myrealbox.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de CC: sean yang , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, fortran@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: LOTS of failures when making check for gfortran--is it Ok? References: <20060623124131.wvzsfp8944c4ws4g@www.physik.uni-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20060623124131.wvzsfp8944c4ws4g@www.physik.uni-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de wrote: > sean yang wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006: >> I successfully compile a GCC4.0.2 with Fortran front end. I tried to >> use it to compile some fortran programs, so far all of them work fine. >> >> But the make check gave lots of failure. Is it tolerable to have >> thousands of failure? > > No, this means that something's broken in your build, and the compiler > is probably not usable. Nevertheless, you may want to use at least gcc > 4.1.1, as the gfortran that comes with gcc 4.0.x isn't really usable, > even if the testsuite passes cleanly. > Regardless of version, testsuite will show unsatisfactory results if your build did not complete, for example if you didn't build libgfortran. But you have been ignoring plenty of questions on why you are trying to build this broken version, so I expect today's replies to be ignored as well.