From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: gdb-7.7 test failures Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:51:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87ioqqgh6s.fsf@yeeloong.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVqVC-0003gY-7y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:53:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVqV4-0001rY-PE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:52:54 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:45096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVqV4-0001rO-LU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:52:46 -0400 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org I've done some experimenting on my systems, and the pattern seems to be this: * On multiprocessor machines with #:parallel-tests? enabled, gdb-7.7 successfully builds. * On single-processor machines, or with #:parallel-tests? disabled, the build always fails because "make check" fails. Therefore, building gdb-7.7 always fails on my YeeLoong, no matter the setting of #:parallel-tests?, presumably because that machine has only a single processor. Building gdb-7.7 on the Loongson 3A machine or my dual-core x86_64 machine works, but if I add "#:parallel-tests? #f" then the build fails on both of these machines. I think we should disable tests in gdb before the 0.6 release. What do you think? Mark