ARGH pthreads tests failing?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Jan 24 02:34:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:32:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:26:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:15:29AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 07:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>How do we proceed here?  I also get this kind of error if I build
>>>>everything from scratch and do the standard make; make check.
>>>
>>>Those errors are a result of the change to the default mutex type.  We
>>>should update the tests.
>>
>>Hmm.  After taking an exhaustive sweep over the whole testsuite and
>>eliminating all warnings (some of which were actually indicative of
>>errors), everything seems to be working ok, now.
>>
>>I'm doing my 50th testsuite run to verify this but it looks like I'll
>>be releasing 1.3.19 soon.
>
>Of course the mutex failures came back with this run.  Could they possibly
>be sporadic?

Ah.  I see the difference.  I erroneously had optimization turned on in the
last test suite run.  I turned it off and got the aforementioned errors.

Perhaps this is a hint.

cgf



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