From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62200 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2018 18:30:57 -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 61815 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2018 18:30:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=vast X-HELO: smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Received: from smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (HELO smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) (129.70.160.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:30:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A73718C6; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:30:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (malfoy.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2AdbpV44pQVl; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (p4FDDBA32.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.221.186.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9D7C18C5; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:30:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Rainer Orth To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some cleanup removal References: <20180903190250.11599-1-tom@tromey.com> <87y3chxks6.fsf@tromey.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:30:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87y3chxks6.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:57:45 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 Hi Tom, >>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Orth writes: > > Rainer> I thought about providing Solaris 11/SPARC and x86 builders, especially > Rainer> since I now have appropriate machines running Solaris 11.4. However, > Rainer> I'm uncertain how useful that would be given that there are currently > Rainer> almost 2000 testsuite failures on x86 and 200+ racy tests. It would > Rainer> catch build failures though. > > Just catching build failures would be nice. Maybe we could configure > this builder to just not run the tests, or maybe only gdb.gdb tests. fine. I'll give it a try then. > Because the builders compare against baseline results, I think it is the > large number of racy tests that is more of a problem than the number of > failures. Given that the vast majority of racy tests is in gdb.threads, maybe it's enough to exclude that. Besides, I'm pretty certain that the failures can be reduced to a handful of root causes at most. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University