Re: guile-1.8.1 fails test on amd64

[Marijn Schouten (hkBst)]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think he wants to know which specific test, and optionally which
> specific function invocation, led to this error.  Chances are high that
> it comes from `time.test'.  What you can do is run only this test as
> follows:
> 
>   (Get at the root of your Guile build.)
>   $ ./pre-inst-guile -l test-suite/tests/time.test

This produces the following output:
PASS: gmtime: (in another thread after error 2147483647)
In thread:
ERROR: In procedure gmtime:
ERROR: Value too large for defined data type
PASS: gmtime: (in another thread after error 9223372036854775807)
PASS: gmtime: (in another thread after error -1)
PASS: gmtime: (in another thread after error -2147483648)
In thread:
ERROR: In procedure gmtime:
ERROR: Value too large for defined data type
PASS: gmtime: (in another thread after error -9223372036854775808)
PASS: internal-time-units-per-second: versus times and sleep
PASS: localtime: gmtoff of EST+5 at GMT 10:00am on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: localtime: gmtoff of EST+5 at GMT 3am on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: localtime: gmtoff of AST-10 at GMT 10pm on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: localtime: gmtoff of EST+5 at GMT 3am on 1 Jan 2000
PASS: localtime: gmtoff of AST-10 at GMT 10pm on 31 Dec 2000
PASS: mktime: gmtoff of EST+5 at 10:00am on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: mktime: gmtoff of EST+5 at 10:00pm on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: mktime: gmtoff of AST-10 at 3:00am on 10 Jan 2000
PASS: mktime: gmtoff of EST+5 at 10:00pm on 31 Dec 2000
PASS: mktime: gmtoff of AST-10 at 3:00am on 1 Jan 2000
PASS: strftime: C99 %z format: GMT
PASS: strftime: C99 %z format: EST+5
PASS: strptime: in another thread after error
PASS: strptime: GNU %s format: gmtoff on GMT
PASS: strptime: GNU %s format: gmtoff on EST+5

Note that I have built guile without thread support.

> Hopefully, this will reproduce the error message.  Then you can try to
> identity which sub-test from that file leads to that error, and finally
> reproduce the very invocation that reproduces it.

Having a look at this now.

> Good luck!  :-)

Thanks :)

Marijn
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