Re: GNU Smalltalk test suite failure with lightning 2.2.2

[Holger Freyther]

Hi Andy,

Do you pass --enable-jit in your build at all? Looking at the test
failures it seems it is crashing when resuming an image.

What is my easiest way to reproduce this?

best regards
  holger

> On 24. May 2023, at 04:17, Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> wrote:
> 
> reference:  comments from GNU Lightning maintainer Paulo César Pereira
> de Andrade:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/2023-05/msg00003.html
> 
> Also cc'd with this message
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 12:02 PM Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, this is regarding GNU Smalltalk test suite failure when building
>> with GNU Lightning at 2.2.2
>> 
>> Context: I was trying to upgrade lightning package in GNU Guix to 2.2.2.
>> 
>> GNU Guix is a source based GNU/Linux distribution so the way it works
>> is that it runs the test suites of packages included in it as part of
>> process ofm upgrading package receipts.   In the build check it was
>> discovered that GNU Smalltalk will fail in test suites when using lightning
>> version 2.2.2.  (Also the same with GNU Lightning
>> 2.2.1, 2.2.0 and 2.1.4 )
>> This is on x86-64 on GNU Guix 1.4,, with up to date GNU libc and Linu8x 
>> kernel.
>> 
>> key parts of log:
>> 
>> Basic packages.
>> 
>> 44: SUnit                                           ok
>> 45: Parser                                          ok
>> 
>> ANSI compliancy tests.
>> 
>> 46: ArrayANSITest                                   FAILED (testsuite.at:82)
>> 47: ArrayFactoryANSITest                            FAILED (testsuite.at:83)
>> 48: BagANSITest                                     FAILED (testsuite.at:84)
>> 49: BagFactoryANSITest                              FAILED (testsuite.at:85)
>> 50: BooleanANSITest                                 FAILED (testsuite.at:86)
>> 51: ByteArrayANSITest                               FAILED (testsuite.at:87)
>> 52: ByteArrayFactoryANSITest                        FAILED (testsuite.at:88)
>> ....
>> 
>>  complete build log (gzipped) as attachment
>