[kaffe] Re: Kaffe 1.1.4 on GNU/Linux PowerPC: 2 of 144 tests failed

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Tony,

Tony Wyatt wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,

>>This was a bug in our and GNU Classpath Serialization code. It was fixed 
>>after 1.1.4 was released by Guilhem.
>>
> 
> Has a patch been released?

See http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2004-February/045304.html for 
guilhem's patch.

> (OT) I have made a slight change to test/regression/Makefile.in to make the
> output a little more user-friendly.
> 
> The original version prints (while testing):
> PASS/FAIL: xxxx.java
> 
> As a result of this patch, it prints:
> xxxx.java . . . PASS/FAIL (3/4)
> 
> where 3 & 4 are the passes and total so far.
> 
> The main advantages of this change are that if the test falls over, you have a
> record of which file it was. Before, the name was not printed out until the
> test was completed. Also, you can see in a screenful of PASS-PASS-PASS, just
> how far it has got in the test and how many failures you have had.

Looks quite useful to me.

Unfortunately, the Makefile.in files are generated automatically by 
automake, so patching them wouldn't be very useful, since the change 
will be overwritten as soon as we run developers/autogen.sh again.

Instead, it would be nice if you could post the patch to the automake 
mailing list [1], so that it can be integrated into the next version of 
automake, and make the lives of all automake users a little better.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] automake at gnu.org