From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11295 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2017 21:34:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 11286 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2017 21:34:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=numerous, dennis, 8.8, BSDcompatible X-HELO: jax4mhob06.myregisteredsite.com Received: from jax4mhob06.myregisteredsite.com (HELO jax4mhob06.myregisteredsite.com) (64.69.218.86) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:34:12 +0000 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.77.36]) by jax4mhob06.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v8RLY8CN030647 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:34:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 14129 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2017 21:34:08 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.103.29 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.9?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.103.29) by 0 with ESMTPA; 27 Sep 2017 21:34:08 -0000 To: gdb@sourceware.org From: Dennis Clarke Subject: numerous tests fail in "make check" stage of gdb-8.0.1 on Debian 8.8 powerpc64 Message-ID: <4f35a691-10f3-bfef-17b1-705b7d624483@blastwave.org> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 This is a Debian 8.8 system on a PowerMac G5 with dual PowerPC 970 processors. The output from config.guess looks to be reasonable and the configure stage went along nicely with an odd warning : deb8_ppc64$ ../gdb-8.0.1/config.guess powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu deb8_ppc64$ ../gdb-8.0.1/configure --host=powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu \ > --target=powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu --with-expat=/usr/local \ > --with-gdb-datadir=/usr/local/share/gdb --without-libunwind-ia64 \ > --without-lzma --with-separate-debug-dir=/usr/local/lib/debug \ > --with-system-gdbinit=/etc/opt/gdb/gdbinit --with-zlib \ > --without-babeltrace configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking build system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-c++... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gpp... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-aCC... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-CC... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-cxx... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-cc++... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-cl.exe... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-FCC... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-KCC... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-RCC... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-xlC_r... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-xlC... no checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking whether g++ accepts -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc... yes checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gnatbind... no checking for gnatbind... gnatbind checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gnatmake... no checking for gnatmake... gnatmake checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... yes checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp --ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f2 checking for objdir... .libs checking for isl 0.16, 0.15, or deprecated 0.14... yes checking for isl 0.16 or 0.15... yes checking for default BUILD_CONFIG... checking for --enable-vtable-verify... no checking for bison... bison -y checking for bison... bison checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... m4 checking for flex... flex checking for flex... flex checking for makeinfo... makeinfo checking for expect... expect checking for runtest... runtest checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-as... no checking for as... as checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-dlltool... no checking for dlltool... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld... no checking for ld... ld checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-lipo... no checking for lipo... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm... no checking for nm... nm checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-windres... no checking for windres... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-windmc... no checking for windmc... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-objcopy... no checking for objcopy... objcopy checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-objdump... no checking for objdump... objdump checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-readelf... no checking for readelf... readelf checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-cc... no checking for cc... cc checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-c++... no checking for c++... c++ checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gfortran... no checking for gfortran... gfortran checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gccgo... no checking for gccgo... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-as... no checking for as... as checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-dlltool... no checking for dlltool... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld... no checking for ld... ld checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-lipo... no checking for lipo... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-nm... no checking for nm... nm checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-objcopy... no checking for objcopy... objcopy checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-objdump... no checking for objdump... objdump checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-readelf... no checking for readelf... readelf checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-windres... no checking for windres... no checking for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-windmc... no checking for windmc... no checking where to find the target ar... host tool checking where to find the target as... host tool checking where to find the target cc... host tool checking where to find the target c++... host tool checking where to find the target c++ for libstdc++... host tool checking where to find the target dlltool... host tool checking where to find the target gcc... host tool checking where to find the target gfortran... host tool checking where to find the target gccgo... host tool checking where to find the target ld... host tool checking where to find the target lipo... host tool checking where to find the target nm... host tool checking where to find the target objcopy... host tool checking where to find the target objdump... host tool checking where to find the target ranlib... host tool checking where to find the target readelf... host tool checking where to find the target strip... host tool checking where to find the target windres... host tool checking where to find the target windmc... host tool checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile deb8_ppc64$ The compile went along fine and am running tests now but seeing a number of "FAIL" messages : FAIL: gdb.base/dup-sect.exp: split FAIL: gdb.base/dup-sect.exp: var1 after strip FAIL: gdb.base/dup-sect.exp: var2 after strip . . . FAIL: gdb.base/ending-run.exp: step out of main FAIL: gdb.base/ending-run.exp: step to end of run . . . FAIL: gdb.base/examine-backward.exp: char-width=1, print-max=20: take 6 strings backward (pattern 1) FAIL: gdb.base/examine-backward.exp: char-width=1, print-max=20: take 1 string backward (6/6) Running /usr/local/build/gdb-8.0.1_linux_3.16.0-4-powerpc64.001/gdb/testsuite/../../../gdb-8.0.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/exe-lock.exp ... etc etc etc It is difficult to know if the entire gdb build should be tossed away or is this normal behavior ? Dennis