nis compat depreciation and test failures

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> and no failures show up.  When I test with ILP32 aarch64 there is no
> libnss_compat system library, the load of libnss_compat fails and I get these
> extra failures:
> 
> FAIL: grp/testgrp
> FAIL: nss/bug17079
> FAIL: posix/globtest
> FAIL: pwd/tst-getpw

That explains the failures of those tests I saw for some MIPS ABIs and 
noted on the wiki as having unknown cause.  Could you update the 
architecture-independent section of 
<https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26> with a discussion of 
these failures and the circumstances under which they occur (probably 
linking to your message)?  (Of course, we should fix them for the future, 
and hopefully there will be a fix suitable to backport to the release 
branch.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com