From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 71578 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2015 15:25:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 71568 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2015 15:25:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f181.google.com) (209.85.213.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:25:08 +0000 Received: by igoe12 with SMTP id e12so37545764igo.1 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.25.18 with SMTP id 18mr12485996ioz.39.1436541906653; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.108.21 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <559FE003.5000205@redhat.com> References: <20150709232141.GA7406@adacore.com> <20150710034255.GB7406@adacore.com> <559FD7C6.2060502@redhat.com> <559FE003.5000205@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GDB 7.9.90 available for testing From: David Edelsohn To: Pedro Alves Cc: Joel Brobecker , GDB Patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Pedro Alves wrote: > On 07/10/2015 03:56 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > >> My concern is more about GDB on Linux on z Systems and even GDB on >> x86-64, not AIX. AIX is weird. >> >> Shouldn't the buildbots for z Series and x86-64 be green before a release? > > Ideally yes, but until the racy tests issue is fixed/kfailed and another > set of old known failures is kfail/xfailed, that can't happen. > I don't think any buildbot slave has ever been stably green yet; they > weren't green to start with. It used to be much worse a few months ago, > we're getting there, but it requires effort, and we could use all > the help we can get. > > The buildbots are quite useful, but we can't rely on greenness > alone to determine release-readyness at the moment. Yes, I was not requesting "green". Because we do have the buildbots available, I thought that it was important to understand the variable failures or instability before a release. If all of the failures on primary platforms are due to race conditions, then they're understood. Thanks, David