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Re: Call for platforms (HP-UX)

Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> — 2001-03-24T04:41:55Z

> Hm, I thought I had updated that before beta6.  What it has now is

<grin>

> The parallel regression test script (gmake check) is known to lock up
> when run under HP's default Bourne shell, at least in HPUX 10.20.  This
> appears to be a shell bug, not the fault of the script.  If you see that
> the tests have stopped making progress and only a shell process is
> consuming CPU, kill the shell and start over with
> 	gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check
> to use ksh instead.

Interestingly, ksh didn't work for me either, but didn't try it on all
the platforms I built on.  I'll make a note to check ksh when I'm
investigating the problem next week though, and let you know what I
find.

Regards,

Giles