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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:20:45 -0800
From:      Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
To:        scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tk4.0p2 on FreeBSD: compiles OK but tests fail
Message-ID:  <199511150420.UAA08416@Grizzly.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199511141556.PAA26594@canary.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> (message from Scott Mitchell on Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:56:40 %2B0000)

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>I'm currently trying to get Tk4.0 up and running on my almost-stock
>..
>The trouble starts with Tk -- no complaints during the build, but _lots_ of
>tests fail.  Interestingly, I get less failed tests if I run them under a
>pared-down X setup (just twm and an xterm) rather than my usual mess of
>clients and a vastly over-configured fvwm.  The output from 'make test' is
>over 40K so I won't post it here -- mail me or check out my post on
>comp.lang.tcl or comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.

The Tk tests are particularly sensitive to behavioral differences in
window managers.  I get a lot of test failures, but they don't cause any
problems in reality.  If you want to send me a gzipped, uuencoded version
of the output, I will take a look at it and see if any thing is unusual.

Mark 



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