Recent simulator patches broke many sims

[Joel Sherrill]

On 3/24/2013 6:23 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>> From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
>> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:45:27 +0100
>> This came in after I was done email last night. My test
>> run finished overnight with no horribly bad issues. I have no idea
>> what the make check results should be though and they could be
>> because I simply ran "make check" with no board specified and
>> no gcc for the target installed.
> This would be no news to *you*, but for the record:
It's not a surprise. I fairly regularly run the gcc tests for RTEMS
and they need a baseboard specified.  I knew binutils didn't. And
assumed (incorrectly) that applied to the simulator and gdb
as well.
> You need a board (make check RUNTESTFLAGS=--target_board=$board
> with e.g. board=cris-sim).  All boards are in "recent"
> dejagnu-1.5 IIRC and most in ancient dejagnu-1.4.4.  You need
> installed binutils (e.g. in some temp location added to PATH for
> the duration of the test-run) for each sim configuration as
> mentioned.  I don't run with target gcc; not needed for the
> level of smoke test I'm after and I guess not for this change
> either.
I will add this to my testing script for RTEMS targets. Is there somewhere
to email these results like gcc?
>> There were some unexpected failures but I don't know what "truth"
>> on that is.
> The truth is in the baseline.
Using 7.5.91 for that.  Just got home and the build for that is done.
>>   I have saved logs from the test run and will do so with
>> the run on Mike's patch.
>>
>> Starting another test run with Mike's patch.
>>
>> I can put both sets of logs on an ftp server if someone wants to review
>> them.  Guidance on what is a bad number of "unexpected failures" on
>> a target is appreciated.
> You compare against a baseline you create without your patches;
> comparing old/new build logs should be sufficient.
>
> Having said all that, I think just a successful *build* of each
> sim would be sufficient here, if your grep can find no
> sockser-specific tests in the target sim test-suites.
OK. I will follow up with a test results email.
> brgds, H-P


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