Re: Bug#649038: elfutils FTBFS on kfreebsd

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

Hi,

debian-bsd@ was not put in Cc: for this bug, so the recent discussion
was probably not seen yet by people who can answer:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:02:18 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> - Would it help to just disable the testsuite on the kfreebsd arch?
>   Clearly the package itself build fine. But some tests are failing.
>   Although it would be nice to have 100% PASS as on GNU/Linux, the
>   failures don't look too terrible for a new architecture that has
>   not been tested upstream.
> 
> - Could someone describe the real issue on kfreebsd?
>   Looking at the test failures it looks like there are two issues:
> 
>   - elflint doesn't know about the OS ABI "FreeBSD".
>     - Is this correct in the ELF files? I don't know whether
>       kfreebsd is supposed to follow the user space ELF OS ABI
>       or the kernel one.
>     - If it is the correct OS ABI then what would an elflint program
>       need to know about it to make sure all its requirements are met?
> 
>   - The other failures look like issues with the /proc interface
>     on the install. Does the /proc interface follow the Linux kernel
>     /proc interface that some of the tests rely on? Or is the issue
>     simple that the buildd uses a chroot with /proc not mounted?

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org