From: Kaveh R. Ghazi Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:18:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Update with info about kernel patches to solve spurious... X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7525a642ea378b68354eaaf6778f5aeb64de19d;p=gcc.git install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Update with info about kernel patches to solve spurious testsuite failures. * doc/install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Update with info about kernel patches to solve spurious testsuite failures. From-SVN: r89033 --- diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index e17ef50c710..40804f39e38 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-10-14 Kaveh R. Ghazi + + * doc/install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Update with info about kernel + patches to solve spurious testsuite failures. + 2004-10-14 Dorit Naishlos * tree-vectorizer.c (get_vectype_for_scalar_type): Added debug prinouts. diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 18cff6a442a..dfbfaeef743 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -3506,6 +3506,17 @@ There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (105633-56 or newer for SPARC, 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
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