Changeset d878ce3 for chapter06

Timestamp:

06/27/2004 02:55:19 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

aa5a7fe

Parents:

cd686ed

Message:

• Moved discussion of glibc test failures to chapter 6, and reworded notes aboutoptional tests.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3854 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/glibc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -80 +80 @@
 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The test suite notes from <xref linkend="ch-tools-glibc"/> are still very much
-appropriate here. Be sure to refer back there should you have any doubts.</para>
+<para>The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of your host
+system, in particular the kernel.  In general, the Glibc test suite is always
+expected to pass. However, in certain circumstances some failures are
+unavoidable. Here is a list of the most common issues we are aware of:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>The <emphasis>math</emphasis> tests sometimes fail 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>
+
+<listitem><para>The <emphasis>gettext</emphasis> test sometimes fails due to
+host system issues. The exact reasons are not yet clear.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The <emphasis>atime</emphasis> test sometimes fails when the
+LFS partition is mounted with the <parameter>noatime</parameter> option, or due
+to other file system quirks.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The <emphasis>shm</emphasis> test might fail when the host
+system is running the devfs file system but doesn't have the <systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem> file system
+mounted at <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> due to lack of support for tmpfs in
+the kernel.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>When running on older and slower hardware, some tests might
+fail due to test timeouts being exceeded.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 
 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will