Re: MicroBlaze glibc fixes

[Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>]

On 01/03/2017 01:34 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Given the MicroBlaze GCC patch to support DWARF EH and so allow glibc to
> build, which I've extracted from the location people pointed to here,
> cleaned up a bit and posted on gcc-patches for review
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-01/msg00041.html>, some glibc
> fixes are also needed to get reasonably clean compilation test results
> with build-many-glibcs.py.
>
> I'll send four such patches for review in separate messages.  Given those
> four - and that GCC patch, and the two architecture-independent patches
> for building glibc tests with GCC 7 that are pending review
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-01/msg00070.html>
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-01/msg00071.html> - this
> reduces the failures for MicroBlaze to just elf/check-execstack.  As with
> hppa and ia64 where that test also fails (hppa also has a failure of
> elf/check-textrel), this is probably best addressed by someone with
> architecture expertise (it's possible that XFAILing as for MIPS makes
> sense, but an appropriate architecture-specific comment needs writing for
> the XFAIL if so).  But while such architecture maintainer / expert action
> is needed for that failure, these four patches do at least get us closer
> to the goal of clean compilation test results for all glibc configurations
> so that regressions can more readily be detected.

Hi Joseph --

I don't have a MicroBlaze Linux installation.  I can't comment on
the failures you encountered.


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