Changeset 2e02c35 for chapter06/glibc.xml

Timestamp:

09/09/2005 08:34:44 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

80d66d1

Parents:

98fe721

Message:

Upgrade to gcc-4.0.1 (merge of gcc4 branch)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6819 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/glibc.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -21 +21 @@
 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>12.3 SBU</seg><seg>476</seg></seglistitem>
+<seglistitem><seg>16.7 SBU</seg><seg>500</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -69 +69 @@
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-testfix-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
+<para>Apply the following patches to enable Glibc to compile with
+GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc4_symbols-patch;
+patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc4_string-patch;
+patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc4_elf-patch;
+patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc4_iconvdata-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The following patch corrects the expected results for some of the math
+tests on x86 processors when compiled with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-gcc4_mathtest-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
@@ -103 +116 @@
 <para>Test the results:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>
+make -k check &gt;glibc-check-log 2&gt;&amp;1 ; grep Error glibc-check-log
+</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>On at least i686 you can expect to see failures in the <emphasis>test-double
+</emphasis> and <emphasis>test-idouble</emphasis> math tests with 
+gcc-&gcc-version;, as well as an expected (ignored) failure in <emphasis>
+posix/annexc</emphasis>.  These two failures in the math tests appear to be
+harmless.</para>
 
 <para>The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of
-the host system, in particular the kernel. In general, the Glibc test
-suite is always expected to pass. However, in certain circumstances,
+the host system, in particular the kernel. In certain circumstances,
 some failures are unavoidable. This is a list of the most common
 issues:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>The <emphasis>math</emphasis> tests sometimes fail when running
+<listitem><para>The <emphasis>math</emphasis> tests sometimes fail in other tests
+when running
 on systems where the CPU is not a relatively new genuine Intel or authentic AMD.
 Certain optimization settings are also known to be a factor here.</para></listitem>