This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: Keeping clean build and test status
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:18:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: Keeping clean build and test status
- Authentication-results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of patofiero@gmail.com designates 10.236.175.36 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=patofiero@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=patofiero@gmail.com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202261521360.30479@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> At least on x86_64, the commit
>
> commit 3134156779108fe8b46e0f4cd60d837572faaa93
> Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
> Date: ? Sat Feb 25 23:18:39 2012 -0500
>
> ? ?First steps to get conformtest fully working
>
> appears to have:
>
> * Prevented "make check" from completing cleanly, because the newly run
> tests fail.
>
> * Also prevented "make check" from completing cleanly, by making the
> check-localplt test fail, with a new PLT entry for dirfd. ?It looks like
> this is the result of the changes to include/dirent.h
This work should have been done on a branch and merged to trunk when ready.
> Comments on the principle of keeping build and test results clean?
I agree. The should be to have trunk build and test clean.
Otherwise it makes bisecting bugs hard.
Cheers,
Carlos.