Re: [GNU Bison 2.0] testsuite: 91 92 93 failed on GNU/Linux on Alpha

[Paul Eggert]

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> suggests trying to change the
> time from 10 to 100 seconds in the call to alarm() in tests/calc.at.
>
> I made that experiment on the DEC Alphastation 200 4/100 system, which
> is indeed old (July 1995 vintage) and slow.  The "make check" run for
> bison-2.0 then completed successfully, reporting after a 64-minute
> run:
>
>       125 tests were successful.
>       2 tests were skipped.

Thanks for testing that.  I installed this patch:

2005-01-10  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/calc.at (_AT_DATA_CALC_Y): Use alarm (100), not alarm (10),
        for the benefit of slower hosts.  Problem reported by
        Nelson H. F. Beebe.

--- calc.at     20 Dec 2004 13:56:38 -0000      1.70
+++ calc.at     10 Jan 2005 18:22:11 -0000      1.71
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Simple calculator.                         -*- Autotest -*-
-# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -300,7 +302,11 @@ main (int argc, const char **argv)
   int count = 0;
   int status;
 
-  alarm (10);
+  /* This used to be alarm (10), but that isn't enough time for
+     a July 1995 vintage DEC Alphastation 200 4/100 system,
+     according to Nelson H. F. Beebe.  100 seconds is enough.  */
+  alarm (100);
+
   if (argc == 2)
     yyin = fopen (argv[1], "r");
   else