Re: Help needed with eglibc 2.13

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:03:00PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi alpha porters,
> 
> I am trying to get eglibc 2.13 ready to get uploaded into unstable. I
> have done the missing porting work on alpha, but I am now stuck with
> testsuite regressions, and I would need help to fix them.
> 
> First of all paer.debian.org, and the machine on the ESIEE cluster I am
> using is still running a 2.6.22 kernel, which is too old for the minimum
> kernel version we are targeting for wheezy (2.6.26). I would appreciate
> if I can get access to a machine running a 2.6.26+ kernel.

fyi, paer is running 2.6.26... it hasn't ran anything older for years
(though it was running 2.6.32 until the recent reinstall).

dannf@paer:~$ uname -a
Linux paer 2.6.26-2-parisc64-smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 3 10:23:00 UTC 2011 parisc64 GNU/Linux

I can upgrade it again to 2.6.32 though, if you like.

      -dann

> Here are the regressions I got (when building for a 2.6.22 kernel, so
> the results might change):
> 
> - test-double.out, Error 1
> - test-float.out, Error 1
> - test-idouble.out, Error 1
> - test-ifloat.out, Error 1
> 
> These ones are due to the new fma() tests which fail on hppa. This is
> not strictly speaking a regression (I mean strncmp() was already broken
> in eglibc 2.11), so I can easily ignore this test if the porters agree.
> 
> - tst-tls9-static.out, Error 1
> - tststatic2.out, Error 1
> 
> These one looks more problematic, I don't know from where they come.
> 
> Help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aurelien
>