Re: gawk 5.1.1 testsuite failures

[arnold]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Nov 06 2021, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>
> >> ============== _inf-nan-torture =============
> >> --- inf-nan-torture.ok     2020-12-20 18:15:25.000000000 +0000
> >> +++ _inf-nan-torture       2021-11-06 19:18:16.276000000 +0000
> >
> > This is likely due to hardware and/or libc differences and can
> > probably be safely ignored.
>
> It causes the build to fail, so it cannot be ignored.

So this is a matter of adding a '-' in the right spot in Makefile.am
which I will do, and I'll send a patch a little later.

> >> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:Andreas_Schwab:Factory/gawk/f/i586
> >
> > Is this 32 bit Intel architecture?  If so, I assume that I could
> > crank up a VM from a standard OpenSUSE install ISO?
>
> It happens everywhere.
>
> >> ============== _iolint =============
> >> --- iolint.ok      2021-05-25 03:27:24.000000000 +0000
> >> +++ _iolint        2021-11-06 19:10:29.040219457 +0000
> >> +gawk: iolint.awk:60: fatal: print to "echo hello" failed: Broken pipe
> >
> > Harumph.  I think this may be a shell issue. What is /bin/sh
> > on OpenSUSE?
>
> It is a race condition, thus a broken test.

I am not so sure. BUT, I will double check with a debugger.

Looking at opensuse.org I see "Tumbleweed" and I see "Leap".
Which one should I install if I want to reproduce on a local VM?

Thanks,

Arnold