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Re: nis compat depreciation and test failures
- From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at cavium dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, kukuk at thkukuk dot de
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:15:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: nis compat depreciation and test failures
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On Mon, 2017-08-14 at 17:14 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:
>
> >
> > and no failures show up. When I test with ILP32 aarch64 there is no
> > libnss_compat system library, the load of libnss_compat fails and I get these
> > extra failures:
> >
> > FAIL: grp/testgrp
> > FAIL: nss/bug17079
> > FAIL: posix/globtest
> > FAIL: pwd/tst-getpw
> That explains the failures of those tests I saw for some MIPS ABIs and
> noted on the wiki as having unknown cause. Could you update the
> architecture-independent section of
> <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26> with a discussion of
> these failures and the circumstances under which they occur (probably
> linking to your message)? (Of course, we should fix them for the future,
> and hopefully there will be a fix suitable to backport to the release
> branch.)
FYI: I have updated the wiki page.
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@cavium.com