From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: 0.6 is around the corner! Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:02:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjk4lsxm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877g7futo0.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4zokho0.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <87txackgav.fsf@yeeloong.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV4t4-0003cm-GH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:02:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV4sy-0004SK-Di for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:02:22 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:55503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV4sy-0004Rv-7J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:02:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87txackgav.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:20:24 -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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver skribis: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> I've run into a build issue with recent master on x86_64 and Loongson 3A >> (both hosted on Debian wheezy). Python 3 fails in the tests with >> "OSError: out of pty devices" and then the guix-daemon sometimes gets >> stuck in a sleeping state and hangs indefinitely. >> >> My Loongson 2F system, based on 1eefbb2693f0f29f8f095af9f067240b85e735aa >> with some cherry-picks and local patches, did not run into this problem. > > Actually, the reason it worked on my Loongson 2F is that the Python 3 > tests weren't run at all. They've been enabled since then. Heh. > On the subject of things I want to get into 0.6, I forgot these: > >> a44bec8 * PRELIMINARY Upgrade sqlite to 3.8.4, and apply large page size= fix. > > Dan Kennedy, who I guess is an sqlite dev, gave me a patch to fix the > problems with sqlite on systems with 64K pages, such as my YeeLoong. > I'd like to get this in, along with an upgrade to 3.8.4, or 3.8.4.1 if > it's on the sourceforge mirror now (it wasn't the last time I checked). Fine. >> b749814 * TEMPORARY HACK: Disable tests for gdb. > > gdb-7.7 seems to work for me, but the test suite consistently fails for > me on MIPS, and apparently also i686 judging from hydra, last I checked. The problem is that there are always tests in GDB=E2=80=99s test suite that= may fail on some platform, and I don=E2=80=99t really know how we=E2=80=99re su= pposed to interpret that (well, I haven=E2=80=99t investigated.) Ludo=E2=80=99.