Re: riscv glibc testing

[Vineet Gupta <vineetg@rivosinc.com>]

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Hi Christoph,

Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for :-)
I'll give it a try.

Thx,
-Vineet

On 11/11/22 12:46, Christoph Müllner wrote:
> Hi Vineet,
>
> did you see my PR for improved testing capabilities for the 
> riscv-gnu-toolchain repo:
> https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain/pull/1139
>
> Among the changes is support for testing glibc.
> Tests run very long and produce incredibly much output (triggers an 
> out-of-memory of tmux on my 32GiB machine).
> Executed everything on a Fedora machine.
>
> BR
> Christoph
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:48 PM Vineet Gupta <vineetg@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Trying to understand how folks working on riscv glibc run the
>     testsuite.
>
>     One could run native on Unmatched (but doesn't allow testing new
>     extensions) or native on qemu with linux (but that will likely be too
>     slow) specially the building part.
>
>     My preferred solution would be to avoid linux altogether, do a host
>     cross-build and test with User mode qemu. And then wire it into
>     riscv-gnu-toolchain [1] just like it currently tests gcc dejagnu.
>     However glibc cross testing from my prior ARC work required
>     linux+ssh etc.
>
>     This email is to see if someone has such as setup already.
>
>     Thx,
>     -Vineet
>
>     [1] https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain
>