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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:31:00 -0000
From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com>
Cc: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>,
	Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>, Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>,
	GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel bugs that trip expect (Was: Re: 2 new regression on darwin6.1)
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In-Reply-To: <3DAB04CD.9C674C41@superh.com>; from joern.rennecke@superh.com on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:54:21PM +0100
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:54:21PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Jim Ingham wrote:
> > 
> > If you have expect patches have you submitted them back to the expect
> > maintainers?  This is now hosted at SourceForge.
> > 
> > This won't help gcc & gdb, because they use a weird hacked version of
> > expect - the current expect won't run the testsuite correctly.  But if
> > you have found some Linux bug, you should submit a patch to the
> > SourceForge patch tracker...
> 
> I had already downloaded & installed the unaltered expect 5.38.0 .
> This has stopped expect from hanging, but the semi-random loss of output
> hasn't improved, if anything, it got worse.
> And no, I haven't got patches, I'm fishing for clues where to start.
> 	

Try the latest patch from

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43310

Let me know if it works for you. If it does, I will file a bug report
for expect if it hasn't been fixed already.


H.J.