Also, I confirmed that InfoTest on powerpc-darwin8 passes its tests, but 
with some (perhaps expected?) noise:

http://paste.lisp.org/display/123443

Ok for me to update gc in 10.4-EOL, with:

InfoTest: TestScript: make -k check || exit 2
?

Fang

> Dave,
>  FYI, David Fang asked me to test gc under Lion so that he can push guile20 
> into 10.7.
> I noticed you were missing an InfoTest and found when one was added to 
> gc.info that the testsuite
> hung at...
>
> Emulating dirty bits with mprotect/signals
>
> This reminded that the same failures exist in the boehm-gc testsuite on FSF 
> gcc...
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2011-07/msg01490.html
>
> This is due to the gc code being incompatible with -pie. The solution is to 
> pass
> -Wl,-no_pie on the linker. The copy of gc.info placed in 10.7 will need the 
> InfoTest
> line...
>
> InfoTest: TestScript: make -k check LDFLAGS="-Wl,-no_pie" || exit 2
>
> It is unnecessary to use SetLDFLAGS:-Wl,-no_pie because the gc package 
> doesn't contain
> any executables. However you should put a comment in gc.info saying that any 
> package
> linking executables with the shared libs from the gc package should passs 
> -no_pie
> to the linker. FYI.
>            Jack
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