[Pkg-pascal-devel] fpc test suite and regression

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi All,
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:52 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just discussing some recent Ubuntu IRC discussions about fpc's
> autopktgtest with Graham. Our autopkgtest had two regressions in Ubuntu,
> one due to updated binutils and one due to update glibc.
> 
> The binutils/2.30-3ubuntu2 caused webtbs/tw0876 to fail on armhf, which
> was already failing on amd64 and arm64, but passed in the past on armhf.
> I don't know if this is further investigated, but in the end it was just
> accepted (does this mean that there is a bug in fpc or that binutils
> should not be blocked by fpc?).
> 
> Furthermore, with the glibc/2.27-0ubuntu2 update, we had failing tests
> on amd64 and armhf because instead of segfaulting (past behavior) it now
> refuses to compile. This adds the "Note: This test needs C libraries"
> into the results of the regression test. While I accepted this extra
> text because it didn't change the outcome of the failing test cases, the
> discussion on the Ubuntu IRC mentioned a change¹ in glibc, that fpc may
> need warning about.
> 
> Quote from IRC:
> <mwhudson> slangasek: so it seems to me that it is slightly incompatible
> in that glibc 2.27 now expects the compiler's crt0.o (or whatever it's
> called) to define __dso_handle and fpc's doesn't
> 
> What do you think? @Abou, do you want to bring the glibc change upstream?
> 
> Paul
> 
> ¹
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=825adeeed1e95990fd1efb70d9a
> c3eb7f1ea802a

Dear FPC core team,

I don't think I can get a relevant answer at my own. Can you please give us
advices about these behavior changes?

Thank you in advance.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir



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