Re: main.lua test failing for 5.4.2-rc1

[Josh Stockin <josh@...>]

I can reproduce on Ubuntu 20.04:

gcc -v: gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)

josh@joshuas3 at ~/Downloads/lua-5.4.2 $ src/lua lua-5.4.2-tests/main.lua
testing stand-alone interpreter
progname: src/lua
Lua 5.4.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2020 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
(temporary program file used in these tests: /tmp/lua_eoFfk5)
testing warnings
src/lua: lua-5.4.2-tests/main.lua:310: assertion failed!
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	lua-5.4.2-tests/main.lua:310: in main chunk
	[C]: in ?


On 11/28/20 1:20 PM, Stefan Waldhör wrote:
> For Lua 5.4.2-rc1 I am seeing an error in main.lua test file (Ubuntu 
> 18.04.5 LTS using gcc 7.5.0). Can someone reproduce this?
>
> ***** FILE 'main.lua'*****
>
> testing stand-alone interpreter
>
> (temporary program file used in these tests: /tmp/lua_Ueqsb7)
>
> testing warnings
>
> lua: main.lua:308: assertion failed!
>
> stack traceback:
>
> [C]: in function 'assert'
>
> main.lua:308: in main chunk
>
> (...tail calls...)
>
> all.lua:155: in main chunk
>
> [C]: in ?
>
> And the test for this reads as follows:
>
> prepfile[[ --
>
> a = 2
>
> ]]
>
> RUN([[lua -e "%s" -i < %s > %s]], prompt, prog, out)
>
> local t = getoutput()
>
> assert(string.find(t, [[
>
> 1 --
>
> 2a = 2
>
> 3
>
> ]], 1, true))