Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2015 03:56 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>
>> My concern is more about GDB on Linux on z Systems and even GDB on
>> x86-64, not AIX.  AIX is weird.
>>
>> Shouldn't the buildbots for z Series and x86-64 be green before a release?
>
> Ideally yes, but until the racy tests issue is fixed/kfailed and another
> set of old known failures is kfail/xfailed, that can't happen.
> I don't think any buildbot slave has ever been stably green yet; they
> weren't green to start with.  It used to be much worse a few months ago,
> we're getting there, but it requires effort, and we could use all
> the help we can get.
>
> The buildbots are quite useful, but we can't rely on greenness
> alone to determine release-readyness at the moment.

Yes, I was not requesting "green".  Because we do have the buildbots
available, I thought that it was important to understand the variable
failures or instability before a release.  If all of the failures on
primary platforms are due to race conditions, then they're understood.

Thanks, David