From f280819f394588ed08873c7ac08b981a6d29c90e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:31:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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: r89035 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gcc/doc/install.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index c26db3afd89b..bbf7db93b8cb 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. + 2004-10-13 Eric Botcazou PR target/14454 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 2f504f0b24f6..978d34ac5512 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -3126,6 +3126,17 @@ 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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