Re: nightly build error

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Don Cohen wrote:
> 
> My impression is that various tests have failed for long periods.

this is not my impression.

> It would, admittedly, be interesting to find and report when the set
> of failures changes.

yes.

> Currently in the mt build (on the machine where that works)
> make check ends with the following.  The non-MT branch does not
> report such failures.
> Is this result interesting?  Expected?
> 
> ====
> 
> Test failed:
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3045 2009-10-30 10:08 pack11.erg
> To see which tests failed, type
>     cat /root/clisp/build-mt/tests/*.erg
> make[1]: *** [compare] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/clisp/build-mt/tests'
> make: *** [check-tests-parallel] Error 2

this is pretty much expected: MT is not perfect yet.

> [2009-10-30 10:09:21 root@number11 ~/clisp/build-mt]
> $     cat /root/clisp/build-mt/tests/*.erg
> Form: (TEST-PACKAGE-ITERATOR :COMMON-LISP)
> CORRECT: T
> CLISP  : ERROR
> Symbol COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY not found as :INTERNAL in package COMMON-LISP [(COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY :INTERNAL)]
> OUT:
> "[SIMPLE-ERROR]: Symbol COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY not found as :INTERNAL in package COMMON-LISP [(COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY :INTERNAL)]
> "
> 
> 
> Form: (WITH-PACKAGE-ITERATOR-INTERNAL (LIST (FIND-PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP")))
> CORRECT: T
> CLISP  : 2
> OUT:
> "Not same symbol: COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY
> Not same symbol (2): COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY COMMON-LISP::SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL-PRELIMINARY
> "

OTOH, I think packages have already been made gc-safe.
also, this looks really scary...