[Buildroot] [RFC][PATCH 1/1] package/glibc: bump version to 2.34-5-g9995d0588f4f9adc68419224d2b3698e2ca4f77e

[Romain Naour]

Hello Petr,

Le 18/08/2021 à 23:53, Petr Vorel a écrit :
> Hi Romain,
> 
>> Hello,
> 
>> Le 04/08/2021 à 21:30, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>>> Hello Petr,
> 
>>> On Wed,  4 Aug 2021 19:22:59 +0200
>>> Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Also upgrade to on RISC-V (that could have been done in d5ce3b5db5)
> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Hi,
> 
>>>> I tested it with building pc_x86_64_efi_defconfig, adding nfs-utils,
>>>> ltp-testsuite and few other tools. Not sure if this is enough for
>>>> testing.
> 
>>> I think that what Romain Naour typically does is run all qemu_*
>>> defconfigs (of course tweaked to use glibc instead of uclibc), and push
>>> them to Gitlab, so that they get build tested *and* boot tested under
>>> Qemu.
> 
>> Indeed, the runtime test is only a boot test. I've looked at the glibc testsuite
>> but it's difficult to setup with a cross-compiled system running under Qemu in a
>> CI (glitlab).
> I hoped there would be some setup ready, but understand there is nothing.
> 
>> For testing, upstream suggest to use a NFS to share the glibc sources between
>> the host and the target (not very handy):
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Testsuite
> Indeed not very handy.
> 
>> Some tests requires a minimal amount of RAM that is not always provided by Qemu
>> target.
> 
>> There is also libc-test project from musl project:
>> https://wiki.musl-libc.org/libc-test.html
> Interesting, although not sure how relevant is for glibc (would require to
> compare with old release).
> 
>> Indeed running some tests from ltp-testsuite would be better than nothing.
>> On the other hand we can detect enough boot issue related to toolchain upgrade
>> to keep us busy.
> 
> Thanks for all suggestions. I'm not sure when I get to it, but the max which
> time allows will probably be just to boot with qemu and run LTP syscalls.

Please upgrade localedef package with the glibc version bump.

I'll mark your patch "Changes requested".

Best regards,
Romain


> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
>> Best regards,
>> Romain
> 
> 
>>> Thomas
> 
>