Re: [Help-smalltalk] Mandrake 8.2 make check failures

[Bonzini]

> FAIL: classes.st
> FAIL: FractionANSITest
> FAIL: IntegerANSITest

It passed make distcheck under GCC 3.0.

Send the tests/classes.*log tests/FractionANSITest.*log and
tests/IntegerANSITest.*log just to be sure.  Or run tests/classes.st and, if
it sigsegv's, send a backtrace.

But I am inclined to say these are GCC 2.96 problems.  GNU Smalltalk's code
is hairy enough that problems are not unlikely.  I used snprintfv also to
remove possible incorrect failures due to printf differences (which would
not be the case with the ANSI tests anyway).  Try GCC 2.95.x or 3.x -- that
means, install the kgcc package and forget about gcc 2.96.

Maybe the JIT compiler could help you (though it is considerably buggier
than the interpreter, which hasn't SIGSEGV'd to me for months), the code
stresses GCC much less.

Paolo