CLISP test failures on ‘core-updates’

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello Lisp team! :-)

The ‘clisp’ package has a few test failures on ‘core-updates’
(x86_64-linux):

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finished  57 files:               6 errors out of  11,960 tests
  1                   alltest:    0 errors out of     636 tests
  2                     array:    0 errors out of     290 tests
  3                  backquot:    0 errors out of      89 tests
  4                    bin-io:    0 errors out of      15 tests
  5                characters:    0 errors out of     221 tests
  6                      clos:    0 errors out of     496 tests
  7                   defhash:    0 errors out of       6 tests
  8                  encoding:    0 errors out of      36 tests
  9                    eval20:    0 errors out of      50 tests
 10                 ext-clisp:    1 error out of      118 tests
 11                       ffi:    0 errors out of     263 tests
 12                    floeps:    0 errors out of      20 tests
 13                    format:    0 errors out of     307 tests
 14                 genstream:    0 errors out of      14 tests
 15                      hash:    0 errors out of      48 tests
 16                  hashlong:    0 errors out of      14 tests
 17                 hashtable:    0 errors out of      10 tests
 18                    iofkts:    0 errors out of     228 tests
 19                    lambda:    0 errors out of      90 tests
 20                  lists151:    0 errors out of     201 tests
 21                  lists152:    0 errors out of     255 tests
 22                  lists153:    0 errors out of       1 test
 23                  lists154:    0 errors out of      46 tests
 24                  lists155:    0 errors out of      25 tests
 25                  lists156:    0 errors out of      20 tests
 26                  list-set:    0 errors out of      10 tests
 27                      loop:    0 errors out of     151 tests
 28                    macro8:    0 errors out of     253 tests
 29                       map:    0 errors out of      64 tests
 30                       mop:    0 errors out of     225 tests
 31                    number:    0 errors out of   3,655 tests
 32                   number2:    0 errors out of     331 tests
 33                    pack11:    0 errors out of     211 tests
 34                      path:    0 errors out of     179 tests
 35                 readtable:    0 errors out of      27 tests
 36                      setf:    0 errors out of     197 tests
 37                    socket:    0 errors out of      92 tests
 38                   steele7:    0 errors out of      86 tests
 39                   streams:    2 errors out of     388 tests
 40               streamslong:    1 error out of       25 tests
 41                   strings:    0 errors out of     409 tests
 42                  symbol10:    0 errors out of     152 tests
 43                   symbols:    0 errors out of       6 tests
 44                      time:    0 errors out of      22 tests
 45                     tread:    0 errors out of     395 tests
 46                      type:    0 errors out of     289 tests
 47                unportable:    0 errors out of      31 tests
 48                        mt:    2 errors out of     102 tests
 49                      weak:    0 errors out of     120 tests
 50                  weakhash:    0 errors out of      26 tests
 51                 weakhash2:    0 errors out of      47 tests
 52                 bind-eval:    0 errors out of      72 tests
 53              bind-compile:    0 errors out of      72 tests
 54                conditions:    0 errors out of      98 tests
 55                  restarts:    0 errors out of      71 tests
 56                  excepsit:    0 errors out of     395 tests
 57                   weakptr:    0 errors out of     260 tests
Real time: 68.01543 sec.
Run time: 59.912647 sec.
Space: 1416624568 Bytes
GC: 1241, GC time: 13.156419 sec.
6
Bye.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-clisp-2.49-92.drv-0/source/src/tests'
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(From <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/4597797/log>.)

I reported it upstream but there seems to be relatively little activity:

  https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/-/issues/51

Ideas on how to investigate/fix/work around?  This is blocking basically
all things Common Lisp on ‘core-updates’.

Ludo’.