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Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:25:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2015 03:56 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>
>> My concern is more about GDB on Linux on z Systems and even GDB on
>> x86-64, not AIX. AIX is weird.
>>
>> Shouldn't the buildbots for z Series and x86-64 be green before a release?
>
> Ideally yes, but until the racy tests issue is fixed/kfailed and another
> set of old known failures is kfail/xfailed, that can't happen.
> I don't think any buildbot slave has ever been stably green yet; they
> weren't green to start with. It used to be much worse a few months ago,
> we're getting there, but it requires effort, and we could use all
> the help we can get.
>
> The buildbots are quite useful, but we can't rely on greenness
> alone to determine release-readyness at the moment.
Yes, I was not requesting "green". Because we do have the buildbots
available, I thought that it was important to understand the variable
failures or instability before a release. If all of the failures on
primary platforms are due to race conditions, then they're understood.
Thanks, David