Re: compiling bison-3.0 on AIX 5.3

[Ken Moffat]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> hi Ken,
> 
> Le 16 oct. 2013 à 20:57, Ken Moffat <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> > For me (linux ppc) it allows the testsuite to complete.
> 
> Great news!
> 
> > There is now one failure:
> > ERROR: 409 tests were run,
> > 1 failed unexpectedly.
> > 23 tests were skipped.
> > 
> > which is
> > 
> > 383: Exception safety api.value.type=variant         FAILED
> > (c++.at:912)
> 
> Less great news :)
> 
> > I looked for that commit in git, but I can't see it.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean here.  Are you looking for
> the commit that introduced the test?  The "variant" support?
> 
 No, the commit which fixed the test 24 hang -
commit 4c4191cec2b30632a31993a6e46fb241ab9c3434
Author: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Sep 28 00:00:34 2013 +0200
                                      
    location: fix EOF check           
                           
    * location.c (location_caret): Use int, not char, for values
    * from
    getc.                                                            

> > Google found
> > it as a coloured diff, I couldn't see how to get a raw one, so I
> > applied the one-line change by hand to the 3.0 release.
> 
> What one-line change are you referring to?
> 
 As above - the change from char to int.  I wasn't sure what else
had changed, I just wanted to confirm that fixing location.c wasn't
responsible for the failure in 383.

> > There, the testsuite completed with the same error so the commit
> > has not introduced a new failure.  Things are moving forward.
> > 
> > I'm attaching a tarball of everything from tests/testsuite.dir/383
> > in 3.0.20-e4678 except for the 'input' binary.
> 
> Thanks a lot.  I think I found the problem (the test suite is buggy,
> but it most cases it will work by accident).  I'm sad that I did not
> get a type error in the test suite, I should have a look at how I
> can get one.
> 
> Could you please confirm that the bug is fixed with this tarball?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-3.0.22-fc8c9.tar.gz
> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-3.0.22-fc8c9.tar.xz

## ------------- ##
## Test results. ##
## ------------- ##

410 tests were successful.
23 tests were skipped.

 The skipped tests are for Doxygen and java, neither of which are
installed.

 Thanks for fixing it.

ĸen
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