On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Sylvain Ageneau <agen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm compiling ecl with:
> ABI=32 CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32" ./configure --prefix=/opt/ecl/tmp
> --enable-threads=yes
>
> This test fails about 50% of the time:
>
> (defun safe-system (string)
> ;; (cmpnote "Invoking external command:~% ~A~%" string)
> (let ((result (ext:system string)))
> (unless (zerop result)
> (cerror "Continues anyway."
> "(SYSTEM ~S) returned non-zero value ~D"
> string result))
> result))
>
> (safe-system "sh -c 'echo OK'")
> (si:quit 0)
OS X's system() routine seems to be broken. Our SIGCHLD handler consumes the
return status of the process it starts and thus it fails. I have fixed this
by removing all uses of system(), replacing them with EXT:RUN-PROCESS
Juanjo
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