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dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Gordon Steemson <gsteemso <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#71624: closed (Re: bug#71624: dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:50:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#71624: dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure

which was filed against the dejagnu package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 71624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com>
To: Gordon Steemson <gsteemso <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 71624-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71624: dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:48:19 -0500

Gordon Steemson wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   
>> On Jun 19, 2024, at 8:00 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gordon Steemson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 19:09, Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  [...]
>>>       
>>>> 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.
>>>  
>>>       
>> It is most likely failing because Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not conform to POSIX:  the log shows an error from stty(1) rejecting the -onlret option, which POSIX defines---it is /not/ a GNU extension.
>>
>> That said, my copy of stty(P) suggests that onlret does not do anything useful here, so a patch has been pushed to the "PR71624" branch at Savannah.  Please try it and indicate if it solves this problem.  If so, I will merge it to master and consider the issue resolved.
>>     
>
> That did indeed fix it!  I thank you most sincerely for taking the time to look into this.
>
> With gratitude,
> Gordon S.
>   

Thank you for the quick response.

-- Jacob

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From: Gordon Steemson <gsteemso <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-dejagnu <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: dejagnu-1.6.3 test failure
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:26:33 -0700

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.

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