On 2020-05-12 3:39 a.m., Greg Price wrote: > I think it would indeed be sensible to simply disable these test cases > on hppa. Here's how the prereq for them is defined: > """ > test_lazy_prereq ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE ' > test_have_prereq !MINGW,!CYGWIN && > run_with_limited_stack true > ' > """ > > So perhaps that `!MINGW,!CYGWIN` bit can be straightforwardly extended > to skip these tests on hppa too. If somebody would like to find the > right incantation to put there for hppa, and test that it works, then > I think that may be enough to get the Git test suite passing again on > hppa. MINGW appears to be set in t/test-lib.sh.
On Linux, the string generated with "uname -m" is either parisc or parisc64. This could be used to set HPPA. On HP-UX, the situation is more complicated but I think most model names include the string 9000. -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net