nis compat depreciation and test failures

[Steve Ellcey]

On Mon, 2017-08-14 at 17:14 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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.)

FYI: I have updated the wiki page.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@cavium.com