[gambit-list] Problem with make check

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Sat Feb 28 09:07:13 EST 2009


On Feb 28, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Paul Onions wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> When building from the latest GIT sources, running "make check" I get:
>
> ------------ TEST 5 (compiler generating C code)
> rm -f mix.c
> ../gsc/gsc -:~~bin=../bin,~~lib=../lib,~~include=../include -f -c  
> mix.scm
> diff test5.ok mix.c
> 1780c1780
> < ___DEF_SUB_FLO(___X17,-0x1L,-0x1L)
> ---
>> ___DEF_SUB_FLO(___X17,0x7fffffffL,-0x1L)
> make[1]: *** [test5] Error 1
> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> I'm running MACOSX 10.5 on a PowerPC machine. Should I be concerned  
> about this?

No.  At one time time I figured out what the difference was,  
something about a differing representation of some exceptional  
floating-point value on x86-64 and PowerPC.

Use "make -i check" to ignore this particular error and you can see  
whether the rest of the test suite passes.

Brad



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