Issues with Solaris buildbots

[Sam James]

Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

> Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>
>> I've now set up 4 Solaris binutils buildbots for 32 and 64-bit
>> Solaris/SPARC and x86.  There are two issues that cause the bots to be red:
>>
>> * The gprof tests FAIL as described in
>>
>> 	PR gprof/34237
>>         gprof tests FAIL on Solaris
>>
>>   This went unnoticed before because this testsuite alone doesn't use
>>   DejaGnu.
>>
>>   I suspect this is due to Solaris still using the original BSD gmon.out
>>   format.  If so, the test scripts could expect that line, similarly to
>>   the powerpc special case.
>
> This has now been fixed.  Besides, the bot uncovered that profiling on
> 32-bit Solaris/x86 had been broken for a decade:
>
> 	libgcc: Fix _mcount on 32-bit Solaris/x86 [PR38239]
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2026-June/720299.html
>
> The fix is in GCC trunk now and locally on the buildbots.
>
>> * Recently, the new pr29655 test FAILs on SPARC:
>>
>> 	PR ld/34151
>>         pr29655 FAILs on SPARC
>>
>>   Fixing this seems to be quite involved.  I wonder if we could just
>>   xfail the test for now so the bots are actually useful.
>
> The xfail just went in, turning all four buildbots green for the first
> time.
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone involved both in getting binutils into shape
> and the buildbots up and running.

And thank you as well, this is great to have finally.

>
> 	Rainer
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