Re: gzip-1.5 test failures on FreeBSD 9.0 and NetBSD 5.1

[Jim Meyering]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> I got successful builds and validations last night on more than 20
> flavors of Unix for the new gzip-1.5 release, and installed them this
> morning.
>
> However, on FreeBSD 9.0 and NetBSD 5.1 (both x86), multiple builds
> have gone into infinite loops at the same point, running for hours
> until I killed them this morning:
>
>       PASS: helin-segv
>       make[4]: *** Deleting file `help-version.log'
>       make[4]: *** [help-version.log] Terminated
>       Terminated
>
>       PASS: helin-segv
>       FAIL: help-version
>
> The attempt this morning used
>
>       set path=(/bin /usr/bin)
>       env CC=cc ./configure && /usr/local/bin/make all check

Hi Nelson,

Thanks for all the testing and the report.

So far I have been unable to reproduce that on i386 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
as follows:

    (export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin; ./configure CC=cc && make && make check)

All tests passed:

    ...
    ============================================================================
    Testsuite summary for gzip 1.5
    ============================================================================
    # TOTAL: 12
    # PASS:  12
    # SKIP:  0
    # XFAIL: 0
    # FAIL:  0
    # XPASS: 0
    # ERROR: 0