>>>>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:54:54 -0700, Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Randolph> In reference to a message from David Mosberger, dated Oct Randolph> 22: >> Is anybody aware of expect/tcl8.4 causing spurious failures on >> "unstable" Debian/ia64? I noticed spurious failures occurring >> with "make check" in the GCC test-suite and it appears that these >> failures go away if I downgrade to "expect" from "stable". That >> version is dependent on tcl8.3, so the bug might be either in the >> "unstable" version of "expect" or in tcl8.4 (or it might be due >> to the way the new packages are built). From what I can tell, >> the problem is that "expect" sometimes fails to notice the >> successful termination of a subcommand (the compiler, in the case >> of the GCC test-suite). >> Does this ring any bells? Randolph> we see this on hppa too. Randolph> i think it might be related to this? Randolph> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=310894&aid=999084&group_id=10894 OK. Jim Wilson thinks there may also be some TCL gremlins that affect 64-bit platforms in general. It seems to be a well-known-enough issue that I won't worry about it (I dislike TCL anyhow, so I'm more than happy to do that... ;-). --david
