Changeset 5342a69

Timestamp:

08/29/2023 12:47:34 PM (9 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0

Children:

6786b0c

Parents:

b6ff6a8 (diff), 22c36bb (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
Use the (diff) links above to see all the changes relative to each parent.

Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/arm64

Files:

• chapter08/gmp.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/tar.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• lfs-latest-git.php (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/gmp.xml

@@ -102 +102 @@
     <option>--host=none-linux-gnu</option> and rebuilt.</para></caution>
 
-    <para>Ensure that all 199 tests in the test suite passed.
+    <!-- Some tests PASS on a specific uarch but SKIP on other CPUs.
+         For example on K8 the following command outputs 200.  -->
+    <para>Ensure that at least 199 tests in the test suite passed.
     Check the results by issuing the following command:</para>
 

chapter08/tar.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <!-- On one system the -j4 improvement is 167s - 46s = 121s (72.46%) -->
+    <note><para>The test time for Tar can be reduced significantly on a
+    system with multiple cores.  To do this, append
+    <command>TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j&lt;N&gt;</command> to the line above.  For
+    instance, using -j4 can reduce the test time by over 70
+    percent.</para></note>
+
     <para>One test, capabilities: binary store/restore, is known to fail if it is
     run because LFS lacks selinux, but will be skipped if the host kernel does
-    not support extended attributes on the filesystem used for building LFS.</para>
+    not support extended attributes or security labels on the filesystem
+    used for building LFS.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>

lfs-latest-git.php

@@ -151 +151 @@
 if ( $package == "vim"        ) $dirpath = "https://github.com/vim/vim/tags";
 if ( $package == "wheel"      ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/project/wheel/#files";
+if ( $package == "zlib"       ) $dirpath = "https://www.zlib.net";
 if ( $package == "zstd"       ) $dirpath = github("facebook/zstd");