Subject: Re: bug#10681: GNU Guile 2.0.5 released

From: Hans Aberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:37 +0100

On 31 Jan 2012, at 20:35, Mark H Weaver wrote:

>>>> The 'make check' gives this error, on OS X 10.7.2 using the compiler
>>>> i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 supplied by Xcode 4.2.1:
>>>> 
>>>> PASS: test-asmobs
>>>> bad return from expression `(f-sum -1 2000 -30000 40000000000)': expected 39999971999; got 39999972255
>>> 
>>> I may be stating the obvious here, but the -1, which is declared to be
>>> of type 'scm_t_int8' in the C function being called, is apparently being
>>> interpreted as 255.  This suggests that whatever is handling its
>>> promotion to a full int is failing to extend its sign bit.  I'm guessing
>>> that this is libffi's job.
>> 
>> It is broken (libffi from GIT, the only that works on OX 10.7):
> 
> You need to install DejaGnu in order to run libffi's test suite.
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/>

It seem they passed (not giving any details).

Hans

Test Run on Tue Jan 31 20:51:33 2012
Native configuration is x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0

		=== libffi tests ===

Schedule of variations:
    unix

Running target unix
Using /usr/local/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target.
Using /usr/local/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
Using /usr/local/src/libffi/git/libffi/testsuite/config/default.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file.
Running /usr/local/src/libffi/git/libffi/testsuite/libffi.call/call.exp ...
Running /usr/local/src/libffi/git/libffi/testsuite/libffi.special/special.exp ...

		=== libffi Summary ===

# of expected passes		1659
# of unsupported tests		15
Making check in man
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.