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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 06:49:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhpisese.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761gmblrj.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:10:24 +0200")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I wrote:
>>> Python-3.3.5 fails its test suite on i686.
>>
>> This turns out to be a bug in glibc-2.20.
>> I've filed an upstream ticket here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17398
>
> It turned out to be a GCC 4.8 bug:
>
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61801
>
> So now we have two option:
>
>   1. Patch GCC 4.8.3 in core-updates, and rebuild the whole thing.
>
>   2. Switch to GCC 4.9 as the default.
>
> Option #1 is the safest, I think.
>
> Thoughts?

We've not yet built GCC 4.9.x successfully on mips64el, so that leads me
to prefer option #1.

    Thanks,
      Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-17 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 17:44 python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates Mark H Weaver
2014-09-16 21:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-17 10:10   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-17 10:49     ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2014-09-17 11:47       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-17 13:52         ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-17 15:22           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-17 16:45             ` Eric Bavier
2014-09-17 21:11               ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-17 11:02     ` Andreas Enge
2014-09-17 11:27       ` Mark H Weaver

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