Re: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-11-14 23:00 skrev Stefano Lattarini:
> On Sunday 14 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Hello Stefano,
>>
>> I think it is time to reevaluate some of the work that has been done in
>> the last few weeks.  I'd like to ask you to postpone pushes of pending
>> stuff that has a clock ticking, and look at the lots of new failures
>> that a testsuite run shows on a few hosts; you can find them in some
>> minutes on <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/>.
>>
> 
> Log:
>  <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141902490189000.txt>
> 
> Minimal system information:
>  configure: autobuild project... GNU Automake
>  configure: autobuild revision... v1.11-225-gcdd3cf3
>  configure: autobuild hostname... gen
>  configure: autobuild mode... default
>  configure: autobuild timestamp... 20111412T185841Z
>  CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh /bin/ksh ../automake/configure 
> PERL=/opt/fsw/perl588/bin/perl
>  checking build system type... alphaev67-dec-osf5.1
> 
> -*-*-*-
> 
>> FAIL: ar-lib.test (exit: 1)
>> ===========================
>>
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests:/tmp/local/alphaev67-dec-o
>> sf5.1/bin:/tmp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/opt/svr4/bin:
>> /etc:/usr/etc:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ucb + pwd
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/ar-lib.dir
>> + set -e
>> + cp /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/../automake/lib/ar-lib .
>> + cat
>> + chmod +x ./lib
>> + ./ar-lib ./lib cr foo.lib foo.obj
>> ./ar-lib: bad substitution
> Might be one of the "fragile" substitutions:
>  ${action#-}
>  ${action#?}
>  address@hidden
> introduced recentlish in the msvc branch.
> 
> Running the ar-lib script with traces might be enough to pinpoint
> the bug.

Running MSVC on osfX.Y is not interesting.  I'd write a patch to skip
the test but I can't then test the result.  So I won't...


>> FAIL: compile3.test (exit: 1)
>> =============================
>>
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests:/tmp/local/alphaev67-dec-o
>> sf5.1/bin:/tmp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/opt/svr4/bin:
>> /etc:/usr/etc:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ucb + pwd
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/compile3.dir
>> + set -e
>> + cp /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/../automake/lib/compile .
>> + cat
>> + chmod +x ./cl
>> + ./compile ./cl foo.c -o foo -lbar -Lgazonk -Ibaz -Xlinker foobar
>> -Wl,-foo,bar LIB=
>> ./compile: bad substitution
> 
>> FAIL: compile6.test (exit: 1)
>> =============================
>>
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests:/tmp/local/alphaev67-dec-o
>> sf5.1/bin:/tmp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/opt/svr4/bin:
>> /etc:/usr/etc:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ucb + pwd
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/compile6.dir
>> + set -e
>> + cp
>> /tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/../automake/tests/../lib/compil
>> e . + cat
>> + chmod +x ./cl
>> + mkdir syslib
>> + :
>> + pwd
>> syslib=/tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/compile6.dir/syslib
>> LIB=/tmp/am/build-alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/tests/compile6.dir/syslib
>> + export LIB
>> + mkdir lib
>> + :
>> + :
>> + ./compile ./cl foo.c -o foo -Llib -lbar -lfoo
>> ./compile: bad substitution
> 
> Might be one of the "fragile" substitutions:
>  ${1#-I}
>  ${1#-l}
>  ${1#-L}
>  ${1#-Wl,}
> introduced recentlish in the msvc branch.
> 
> Running the compile script with traces might be enough to pinpoint
> the bug.

See above.

Cheers,
Peter