Re: glibc-2.15's check-abi fails on sparcv9

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On 07/20/2012 08:49 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 7/20/2012 2:22 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On 07/19/2012 09:43 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
> > > > I was attempting to compile glibc-2.15-725b8ee08aff with binutils-2.22
> > > > and gcc-4.7.1 on sparcv9, and got this:
> > >
> > > Please file a ticket in the bugzilla against glibc, version 2.15, mark
> > > it as a build issue.
> > >
> > > It might be that cherry-picked backport caused a problem on the 2.15
> > > branch for sparc.
> > >
> > > If you could narrow down which commit in 2.15 broke it that would be great.
> >
> > glibc 2.15 has broken abilist symbols, this is only fixed for glibc 2.16.
> >
> > Carlos, backporting all the abilist changes for 2.15 is IMO a rather large change. Do you really still want to fix this?
>
> Andreas,
>
> I didn't remember the abilist symbols being broken :-(
>
> I definitely don't want to backport that into 2.15.
>
> Lets mark this as an expected fail.
>
> Jan,
>
> Could you please add this failure to the wiki for the 2.15 release?
>
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.15
>
> Add it under Known Issues -> Testsuite Failures.
>
> That way we keep track of detected known issues reported by users.


I've added a section now,

Andreas
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