[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4366] OS X 10.5, 64-bit PPC, no-asm, and "Failed test 'running asynctest'"

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Mon Mar 14 15:03:17 UTC 2016



On 14/03/16 14:57, Andy Polyakov via RT wrote:
>> Bump... The issue is still present as of b36a2ef for OS X 10.6 64-bit.
>> 32-bit tests OK.
>>
>> The relevant snippets are:
>>
>> $ make test
>> ...
>> ../test/recipes/90-test_async.t ........... 1/1
>> #   Failed test 'running asynctest'
>> #   at ../test/testlib/OpenSSL/Test/Simple.pm line 70.
>> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
>> ../test/recipes/90-test_async.t ........... Dubious, test returned 1
>> (wstat 256, 0x100)
>> Failed 1/1 subtests
> 
> Once again, "it boils down to the fact that getcontext always returns
> failure to ppc64 program. There is nothing we can do about it, you just
> have to accept that this particular thing doesn't work on MacOS
> X/ppc64." getcontext is part of libc equivalent, which is why there is
> nothing that can be done about it.
> 
> 
Can we detect the platform in async_posix.h so that if we work out we're
on ppc64 then we default to ASYNC_NULL?

Matt


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