Re: glibc-2.19 - two weeks to go!

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> glibc-2.19 is scheduled to be released in two weeks today.  So lets have
> a look at the current status.
>
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.19
>
> Blockers/desirables:
>  - all features listed in the wiki have been either implemented or
>    delayed until 2.20
>  - there are still a few bugs with the 2.19 milestone set [1] .
>
> Is BZ#12683 (Race conditions in pthread cancellation) still targeted at
> 2.19?  The Aarch64 issue has a patch submitted and I'm not sure what is
> happening with the ppc math issues (or whether they were concluded to be
> gcc bugs). If there is anything else that needs fixed for 2.19, either
> add it to the wiki or open a bug with 2.19 milestone so it is easy to
> keep track of.
>
>
> The following machines have not had status information added:
>   x86 GNU/Hurd
>   x32
>   PowerPC (soft-float)
>   PowerPC (hard-float)
>   PowerPC64
>   sparc
>   sparc64
>   ARM
>   MIPS
>   Alpha
>   SH
>   Microblaze
>   AArch64
>   HP-PARISC
>   m68k
> (although MIPS and PowerPC (soft-float) have had their failures noted in
> the known issues section)
>

For both x86-64 and x32, I got

[hjl@gnu-6 glibc-test]$  cat
/export/build/gnu/glibc-test/build-x86_64-linux/nptl/tst-cancel-wrappers.out
in /export/build/gnu/glibc-test/build-x86_64-linux/libc_pic.a(system.os)
system's cancellation missing
[hjl@gnu-6 glibc-test]$

Is this normal?


-- 
H.J.