Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some cleanup removal

Rainer Orth
2018-09-04T18:30:57Z

Hi Tom,

>>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>
> Rainer> I thought about providing Solaris 11/SPARC and x86 builders, especially
> Rainer> since I now have appropriate machines running Solaris 11.4. However,
> Rainer> I'm uncertain how useful that would be given that there are currently
> Rainer> almost 2000 testsuite failures on x86 and 200+ racy tests. It would
> Rainer> catch build failures though.
>
> Just catching build failures would be nice. Maybe we could configure
> this builder to just not run the tests, or maybe only gdb.gdb tests.

fine. I'll give it a try then.

> Because the builders compare against baseline results, I think it is the
> large number of racy tests that is more of a problem than the number of
> failures.

Given that the vast majority of racy tests is in gdb.threads, maybe it's
enough to exclude that. Besides, I'm pretty certain that the failures
can be reduced to a handful of root causes at most.

Rainer

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