Re: 2.12 branch will be cut on Saturday

[Christian Jönsson <c dot christian dot joensson at telia dot com>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:36:06PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:20:48PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:16:18AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:59:05PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > >> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:21:45PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > >> > Testing the branch is always greatly appreciated.  I know of some
> > > >> > Windows (DLL-related) problems, and some Sparc problems, and the
> > > >> 
> > > >> What are the known sparc problems?
> > > >
> > > > Christian Jönsson has been posting Sparc-linux testresults for several
> > > > weeks now.  If you scroll down in them you'll see a few elf failures in
> > > > LD.
> > > 
> > > Search the archives - there was some discussion between HJ and myself
> > > and we conclude that some of the tests are invalid but so far none of
> > > the SPARC maintainers commented on this...
> > 
> > It appears that these are different failures than the ones you were
> > discussing.
> 
> Well, I think an important factor in the testing is not only binutils
> version, but gcc and glibc version as well.
> E.g. I've just run make check on sparc-redhat-linux on todays checkout
> and the only failure I got was:
> FAIL: S-records with constructors

I agree with you. Still, the S-records is failing and perhaps that's a
binutils on sparc issue. Since we all heard you're the expert, :-), do
you think you perhaps could look into this specific failure?

> 
> This is Aurora (RHL 7.2 SPARC port) distro, gcc-2.96-RH (2.96-102),
> glibc 2.2.4.
> 

Cool, tried that a while ago, how's it coming? installable yet? I wish
redhat had a "production" release of 7.2 (or 7.3 perhaps).... sigh

Cheers,

/ChJ