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Re: glibc 2.1.92 make check results under Linux PPC


>>>>> Jack Howarth writes:

 > Kevin,
 >      I built the glibc 2.1.92 srpm from this weeks rawhide release
 > and it showed the same two failures as you found with one additional
 > one that perhaps you forgot to mention.

 >   /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux/elf/ld.so.1 --library-path /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux/math:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux/elf:/usr/src/redh
 > make[2]: *** [/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux/math/test-fpucw.out] Error 1
 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/math'
 > make[1]: *** [math/tests] Error 2
 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92'
 > make: *** [check] Error 2


 > [root@localhost build-ppc-linux]# more /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.1.92/build-ppc-linux/math/test-fpucw.out
 > control word is 0xd4 but should be 0x0.


 > Hopefully Geoff and Franz can track these down soon since we seem to be
 > very close to a usable glibc 2.1.9x on linuxppc.

That's easy to track down - the kernel initializes the FPU to a
different value than glibc expects.  Check the program, check the
value of _FPU_DEFAULT in sysdeps/powerpc/fpu_control.h - and see what
the kernel does.  Either of them is at fault.

Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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