Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

> A few strange warnings and failures I saw while running the test
> suite, which I couldn't figure out or couldn't find a solution for:
>
> 1. Even after using -export-dynamic, the tests in foreign.test which
>    use 'qsort' fail:

See my other message.

> 2. Failures in ports.test:
>
>      Running ports.test
>      FAIL: ports.test: file: binary mode ignores port encoding
>      FAIL: ports.test: file: binary mode ignores file coding declaration
>
>    Should I worry about this?

Possibly.  :-)

Can you try this patch, run ./check-guile ports.test, and report the
debugging statements that are printed?