Subject: Re: [platform-testers] Emacs 27.2 RC2

From: Dagobert Michelsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:42:23 +0100

Hi Eli,

Am 19.03.2021 um 08:35 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> The second release candidate for what will be the 27.2 release of Emacs
> (the extensible text editor) is now available at
> 
>  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-27.2-rc2.tar.xz
> 
> The tarball is signed; you can get the PGP signature file at
> 
>  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-27.2-rc2.tar.xz.sig
> 
> Please give it as much testing as you can.
> 
> As always, if you encounter problems building or using Emacs,
> send a report to [email-masked] with full details
> (if possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug).
> 
> Thanks for helping to test Emacs.

I have a couple of test failures with Solaris 10 Sparc and Sun Studio:

SUMMARY OF TEST RESULTS
-----------------------
Files examined: 267
Ran 3829 tests, 77 failed to run, 3716 results as expected, 23 unexpected, 90 skipped
3 files did not finish:
  src/emacs-module-tests.log
  lisp/progmodes/sql-tests.log
  lisp/auth-source-tests.log
8 files contained unexpected results:
  lisp/vc/diff-mode-tests.log
  lisp/progmodes/xref-tests.log
  lisp/progmodes/flymake-tests.log
  lisp/net/nsm-tests.log
  lisp/net/network-stream-tests.log
  lisp/files-tests.log
  lisp/filenotify-tests.log
  lisp/cedet/semantic-utest-ia.log
gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:318: check-doit] Error 2

All logfiles are available from the buildfarm at
  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~dam/emacs-27.2-rc2-logs.tar.gz

Best regards

  — Dago

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