Re: GDB 7.10 release 2015-07-17 status update?

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Friday, July 17 2015, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> David Edelson reported that the buildBot was reporting a lot of
> failures around the time we cut the branch. Has anyone looked at those
> since then? When I did, I was looking at the waterfall view, and
> several builds looked like they were failing right at the beginning,
> so I didn't know what to make of it. Also, that's a lot of info to
> grok, so I didn't have time to look further.
>
> What I can say is that I've tested the branch with a number of
> platforms, not as exhaustively of course, but so far, it looks
> pretty good.

Heya,

As has been explained before, our testsuite contains some racy tests,
and therefore our BuildBot is just spilling lots of FAIL's from them.  I
have been trying to work on a solution to help address this problem;
meanwhile, other are looking at the logs (mostly Yao, I think) and
reporting whenever they see something there.

> What I think we should do is give it another couple of weeks, and
> see if other reports come up. It would be good, also, if we had
> some info about the buildBOT failures, and whether the release
> might be affected by any regression it found.

Yeah, I agree.  I'll investigate the logs and see if they contain
something suspicious.  Unfortunately, due to the recent problem
(reported at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00506.html>) the build
logs are not available anymore for a number of builds...  But the
BuildBot logs (i.e., the e-mails it sends to gdb-testers -- those have
not been affected) should be enough to determine if there's something
strange.

Thanks,

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