Changeset d9c836b for chapter06/glibc.xml

Timestamp:

08/22/2012 08:38:21 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

71e9c63, da7032a

Parents:

3f4c6ca1

Message:

Update glibc text removing noatime mount
caution and adding text regarding test issues.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9956 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/glibc.xml (modified) (7 diffs)

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -109 +109 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../glibc-build
 cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
-
+<!--
     <para>As in Chapter 5, add the needed compiler flags to CFLAGS for x86 machines.
     Here, the optimization of the library is also set for the gcc compiler to
@@ -117 +117 @@
   i?86) echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native -O3 -pipe" &gt; configparms ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
     <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
 
@@ -151 +151 @@
     </important>
 
-    <para>Before running the tests, copy a file from the source tree into our
-    build tree to prevent a couple of test failures, then test the
-    results:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">cp -v ../glibc-&glibc-version;/iconvdata/gconv-modules iconvdata
-make -k check 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee glibc-check-log
+    <para>Generally a few tests do not pass, but you can generally ignore
+    any of the test failures listed below. Now test the build results:</para>
+
+<!-- cp -v ../glibc-&glibc-version;/iconvdata/gconv-modules iconvdata -->
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee glibc-check-log
 grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the
-    <emphasis>posix/annexc</emphasis> test.  In addition the Glibc test suite
-    is somewhat dependent on the host system.  This is a list of the most
-    common issues:</para>
+    <emphasis>posix/annexc</emphasis> and
+    <emphasis>conform/run-conformtest</emphasis> tests.  In addition the Glibc
+    test suite is somewhat dependent on the host system.  This is a list of the
+    most common issues:</para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
@@ -171 +172 @@
       </listitem> -->
       <!-- Was true in glibc-2.3.6, rt/tst-cpuclock2 in glibc-2.11.1 -->
+
       <listitem>
-
         <para>The <emphasis>nptl/tst-clock2</emphasis>,
-        <emphasis>nptl/tst-attr3</emphasis>, and 
+        <emphasis>nptl/tst-attr3</emphasis>, 
+        <emphasis>tst/tst-cputimer1</emphasis>, and 
         <emphasis>rt/tst-cpuclock2</emphasis>
         tests have been known to fail.  The
         reason is not completely understood, but indications are that minor
         timing issues can trigger these failures.</para>
-      
       </listitem>
+
       <listitem>
         <para>The math tests sometimes fail when running on
@@ -186 +188 @@
         authentic AMD processor.</para>
       </listitem>
+      
+      <!--
       <listitem>
         <para>If you have mounted the LFS partition with the
@@ -192 +196 @@
         use the <parameter>noatime</parameter> option while building LFS.</para>
       </listitem>
+      -->
+      
       <listitem>
         <para>When running on older and slower hardware or on systems under
@@ -199 +205 @@
         make -k check</command>).</para>
       </listitem>
+      
       <listitem>
         <para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are posix/bug-regex32, 
         misc/tst-writev, elf/check-textrel, nptl/tst-getpid2, and stdio-common/bug22.</para>
       </listitem>
+    
     </itemizedlist>