On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 19:09, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Gordon Steemson wrote: > > I have tried Adam Sampson's patch for Expect 5.45.4, but unfortunately it did not solve this problem for me. Neither did building in a different directory -- whether a subdirectory of the source directory or outside it entirely, on my system it always fails the report-card tests with these same sorts of unexpectedly closed subprocess files. > > This is a different issue than the Expect bug that patch is intended to > fix. The spurious EOF bug in Expect only affects the internal DejaGnu > unit tests, which are run in a child expect process. Oh. I must have mis-read that part. My apologies. > The report-card tests should not be affected by that issue, however, > this report contains insufficient information to evaluate. Please > attach the report-card.log produced by a failing test run and describe > the system that you are using. What distribution is exhibiting this issue? The test log should be attached to this message; hopefully it does not get stripped off. The build was performed on an obsolete platform – specifically, Mac OS X 10.5.8 “Leopard” running on a dual-processor Power Mac G5 – so I don’t know if anyone else will care that it failed. I’d still like to know why it is failing. Gordon S.