Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone test failures on ppc

[Roland McGrath]

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 04:26:47PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>  
> > Building monotone 0.36 on ppc, I get these failures in make check:
>  
> >  37 db_check_and_non-serious_errors               FAIL (line 24)
> > 143 db_kill_rev_locally_command                   FAIL (line 22)
> > 144 db_kill_rev_locally_command_2                 FAIL (line 25)
> > 374 schema_migration_with_rosterify               FAIL (line 61)
> > 428 update_to_off-branch_rev                      FAIL (line 21)
>  
> >     mtn: error: sqlite error: SQL logic error or missing database
>  
> > Am I the only one seeing these failures?
> 
> IIRC, this turns out to be a gcc-4.2.1 miscompile of sqlite:
> 
>     http://www.nabble.com/sqlite-fix-for-gcc-4.2.x-bug..-t4198798.html

monotone-0.36/sqlite/vdbe.c already includes this change.
I still see the problem.  (Reversing that patch gives many more failures.)

Also, I am not using GCC 4.2, but 4.1-RH.  But this has given me a
direction to investigate the compiler issue.


Thanks,
Roland