Re: The 2.38 branch has been created.

[Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>]

Hi Matthias,

> some issues:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28819
> has a reproducer to show that a ld change between Jan 06 and Jan 19 builds
> binaries without RELRO support on at least some architectures.
> 
> this is a build configured with -enable-pgo-build=lto.

Hmm, I had better check this out.  Thanks for raising the issue.


> on any arch:
> make[5]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/builddir-single/libbacktrace'
> FAIL: allocfail.sh
> 
> libbacktrace seems not to be built during the build, but only when running the
> tests. Is this expected?

It was a snafu.  (I accidentally deleted a file in the libbacktrace directory).
This should now be fixed.


> amd64, ppc64, hppa, powerpc, x32: no test failures

That is nice.


> arm64, regression from 2.37:
> Running /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/aarch64-elf.exp ...
> FAIL: ld-aarch64/tls-relax-gdesc-le-now

Hmm, I will check that one out.


> ppc64el:
> Running /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap.exp ...
> FAIL: bootstrap
> FAIL: bootstrap with strip
> FAIL: bootstrap with -Wl,--traditional-format
> FAIL: bootstrap with -Wl,--no-keep-memory
> FAIL: bootstrap with -Wl,--relax
> FAIL: bootstrap with -Wl,--max-cache-size=-1

I think that I will let Alan look into these...


> s390:
> Running /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/shared.exp ...
> FAIL: pr26580-3
> FAIL: Run pr21964-4
> Running /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/tls.exp ...
> FAIL: Build pr22263-1

I will have a look into these as well.

Cheers
   Nick