Review of armel regression FTBFSes

[Michael Hope]

I've knocked off a few of these.  At least half are probably upstream
issues or ARM specific, but there's a few such as segfaults when
running tests that smell toolchain specific.

See https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/BuildFailures

-- Michael

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at linaro.org> wrote:
>        Hey
>
>  Matthias kicked an armel rebuild of Ubuntu main with a gcc-4.4 + Linaro
>  diff package.  The rebuild copy-archive is visible at:
>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20100707
>
>  The failed logs are at:
>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20100707/+builds?build_text=&build_state=failed
>
>  @Steve, you had offered help in reviewing the i386/amd64 rebuilds in
>  the past (and I think Michael Hope was working on these); I would very
>  much take help in reviewing the armel issues.  Is this something the
>  Foundations team could help with?
>
>  I'd like to discuss organizing this review a bit.
>
>  * First, we need to make sure we don't review the same build logs
>   multiple times; the rebuild isn't over and builds are going to
>   continue showing up; Matthias told me new build logs will show up at
>   the top, so we only need to note the last package we reviewed.
>
>  * We need some place tracking the build logs which we skipped (for
>   which we didn't file a bug) and/or note last reviewed package; I
>   propose to note this down in a wiki page.
>
>  * For now, we should skip openjdk / java related issues; openjdk needs
>   some bug fixing before we can consider using it on armel.  Such
>   issues should be documented along other instructions in the
>   aforementioned wiki page.
>
>  * I think we should skip packages which FTBFS on x86.  Do we actually
>   compare build logs before classifying these?
>
>  * We should file bugs with some standard tags, perhaps linaro + armel?
>
>  * I would like us to develop helpers to analyze build-logs; perhaps
>   Lucas Nussbaum has something since he manages to analyze the grid5000
>   rebuild logs decently.  Ideally, these tools would also allow
>   assigning build log reviews to people, leaving comments and such.
>
>  Comments welcome!
>
>   Cheers,
> --
> Loïc Minier
>
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