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Re: linknamespace failures
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:22:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: linknamespace failures
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On 12/19/2014 11:43 PM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 11:12 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 12/19/2014 10:56 PM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>>> After fixing one obvious namespace issue that was a tilegx namespace bug
>>> (strstr calling strnlen) I still see an inordinate number of linknamespace
>>> failures, in generic code. I'm assuming a fair number of these must be
>>> seen by other platforms. It does seem a bit overwhelming to tackle.
>>> I've sorted and collapsed all the failures, but it still appears that
>>> there are close to 100 separate failures being reported.
>>>
>>> Are other folks seeing these and working on them? I don't know that I
>>> can commit the kind of time necessary to track down all of these.
>> I don't see any of those on F20 compiling master.
>
> This is on a tilegx machine, so using more of the generic code, which
> I think exposes me to more linknamespace issues.
>
> I don't see the errors when I do a build on x86_64, to be sure.
In which case they are likely real problems :-(
I would suggest reaching out to Joseph and asking how best to proceed.
He has some good examples of how to fix other similar instances, so
you're not entirely without good examples.
Cheers,
Carlos.