Re: Bison 2.3

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:27:17 -0700, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> "H.Merijn Brand" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Build, and installed OK on
> >
> > AIX 4.3.3.0  PowerPC/32bit IBM vac
> > AIX 5.2.0.0  PowerPC/64bit IBM vac
> >
> > First two bloks of tests passed (bison 2.2 did not pass), after which I
> > killed the tests, as AIX is soooooooo slow with the tests that I do not
> > care to wait for it to crash, because of the fact that the test suite
> > generates so many 'sh\d+.\d+' files on /tmp, that 'make check' cannot
> > finish, as /tmp is 
> > flooded.http://adv.alsscan.com/alsscan/w22k3/jt12/tgpws.html
> 
> Thanks for letting us know.  The test suite problem is more an
> Autoconf issue so I'm CC'ing this to bug-autoconf.
> 
> First, are you testing AIX 4.3.3 because you normally install GNU
> software and need to use it on 4.3.3, or simply for portability tests
> like this?  I'm asking because IBM stopped supporting 4.3.3 in 2003
> (says <http://www.softwaredevelopment.ca/fyios.shtml>) and if this
> means nobody is seriously using it then we don't need to worry about
> it.  (5.2 is another matter, of course.)

I'm doing AIX 4.3.3.0 because

1. I'm smoking perl on it
2. We still have a customer that runs it's all-day production work
   on this box (and nothing /but/ this box). Yes, it is their most
   sophisticated unix server. They hail "don't fix if it ain't broke".
   Probably mainly because that involves least work, and the SA's are
   the prime example of lazy people.

> Second, which shell was used to execute the test suite?  I'm not
> talking about the "#! /bin/sh" line at the start of tests/testsuite;
> I'm talking about the shell that "make check" used to run it.  E.g.,
> on my host it uses /bin/sh because "make check" eventually does this:

tcsh of course. What other shells are there? :]

>    ...
>    make[2]: Entering directory `/home/eggert/src/gnu/bison/tests'
>    /bin/sh ./testsuite 
>    ## ------------------------- ##
>    ## GNU Bison 2.3 test suite. ##
>    ## ------------------------- ##
> 
>    Input Processing.
> 
>      1: Invalid dollar-n                             ok
>      2: Invalid @n                                   ok
>    ...   
> 
> and the "/bin/sh" tells us which shell.


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