[PATCH v2] tests: force non-deterministic mode in non-deterministic tests

[Jan Beulich]

On 21.12.2023 09:13, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:22:43 +0100, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> On 20.12.2023 18:40, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>>> Incidentally, builds with this patch in Debian all pass these tests (with
>>> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set in the environment), but fail on i386 tests on
>>> big-endian systems; see
>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=binutils-mingw-w64 for
>>> logs. git bisect tells me that the culprit is
>>> 734dfd1cc966aff736eaeda68bfa4807ee4b50c1 but I haven’t figured out why
>>> yet.  
>>
>> That has been there for a while. I would have looked at the build logs, but
>> the link above points only at their tails, and I can't spot how to obtain
>> them through just the browser (needing to obtain any debian specific
>> software for this purpose is a no-go imo).
> 
> Of course! It’s not obvious, you can get the full logs by following the
> “Build-Attempted” links. For example,
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=binutils-mingw-w64&arch=s390x&ver=11.2&stamp=1703021196&raw=0
> on s390x.

Ah, I see - it's really not the build, but the checking that fails.

> To reproduce this, on any BE system (s390x, sparc64 etc.), on current trunk:
> 
> ./configure --target=i686-w64-mingw32 && make && make -C gas check

Provided one has access to a BE system. Anyway, it'll be the transformation
cpu_flags_from_attr() does which needs further tweaking for being BE-
compatible. Just that right now I can't see yet what exactly needs changing
there in which way.

Jan