Changeset f286505 for chapter08/glibc.xml

Timestamp:

02/20/2024 10:26:47 AM (7 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/clfs-ng

Children:

0f35ff0

Parents:

426c3a4 (diff), 5f2ba8c (diff)
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Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/clfs-ng

File:

• chapter08/glibc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/glibc.xml

@@ -165 +165 @@
       </listitem>
 
-<!-- Did not fail with glibc-2.38
-      <listitem>
-        <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
-        is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
-      </listitem>
--->
-
-      <!-- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-August/141567.html -->
-      <listitem>
-        <para>The <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>
-        test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.</para>
-      </listitem>
-
       <listitem>
         <para>Some tests, for example
-        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>,
-        are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
-        timeout.</para>
+        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis> and
+        <emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity*</emphasis>
+        are known to fail due to a timeout (especially when the system is
+        relatively slow and/or running the test suite with multiple
+        parallel make jobs).  These tests can be identified with:</para>
+
+        <!-- TODO: Using nodump for freeze.  Change it to role="test" after
+             12.1 release so jhalfs can list these in the log.  -->
+        <screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep "Timed out" -l $(find -name \*.out)</userinput></screen>
+
+        <para>It's possible to re-run a single test with enlarged timeout
+        with
+        <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=<replaceable>&lt;factor&gt;</replaceable>
+        make test t=<replaceable>&lt;test name&gt;</replaceable></command>.
+        For example, <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=10 make test
+        t=nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</command> will re-run
+        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis> with ten times
+        the original timeout.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
         <para>Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
-        model or host kernel version.</para>
+        model (for example
+        <emphasis>elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo</emphasis>) or host kernel
+        version (for example
+        <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>).</para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>