* [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
@ 2004-10-13 19:32 Kaveh R. Ghazi
2004-10-14 7:08 ` Eric Botcazou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kaveh R. Ghazi @ 2004-10-13 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-patches; +Cc: ehrhardt
As discussed on the mailing lists...
Ok for mainline?
Thanks,
--Kaveh
Index: install.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.321
diff -u -p -r1.321 install.texi
--- install.texi 7 Oct 2004 12:14:45 -0000 1.321
+++ install.texi 13 Oct 2004 19:20:18 -0000
@@ -3506,6 +3506,17 @@ There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (10563
108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
+Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
+related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
+itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
+program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
+causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
+testsuite failures appear.
+
+There are patches for Solaris 8 (117350-12 or newer for SPARC,
+117351-12 or newer for Intel) and Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
+SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
+
@html
<hr />
@end html
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* Re: [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
2004-10-13 19:32 [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite Kaveh R. Ghazi
@ 2004-10-14 7:08 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-10-14 12:55 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Botcazou @ 2004-10-14 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-patches; +Cc: Kaveh R. Ghazi, ehrhardt
> Ok for mainline?
I don't know from whom you're waiting for an approval, but the patch looks
good to me (I presume it is for the *-*-solaris2* section).
--
Eric Botcazou
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* Re: [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
2004-10-14 7:08 ` Eric Botcazou
@ 2004-10-14 12:55 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2004-10-15 8:37 ` Eric Botcazou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kaveh R. Ghazi @ 2004-10-14 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ebotcazou; +Cc: ehrhardt, gcc-patches
> > Ok for mainline?
>
> I don't know from whom you're waiting for an approval, but the patch
> looks good to me
Thanks.
> (I presume it is for the *-*-solaris2* section).
> Eric Botcazou
Yes.
In retrospect, since the problem isn't specific to any GCC version
I'll apply the instructions to the branches also.
--Kaveh
--
Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
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* Re: [DOC PATCH]: update solaris documentation w/kernel bugfix for testsuite
2004-10-14 12:55 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
@ 2004-10-15 8:37 ` Eric Botcazou
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Botcazou @ 2004-10-15 8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-patches; +Cc: Kaveh R. Ghazi, ehrhardt
> In retrospect, since the problem isn't specific to any GCC version
> I'll apply the instructions to the branches also.
Right, these patches are suitable to all active branches.
Thanks for taking care of the problem.
--
Eric Botcazou
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