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There is a subtle non-determinism when building glibc.
This depends on whether the glibc is built using the distibuted
file intl/plural.c or built using the generated file intl/plural.c.
These two files (intl/plural.c generated vs. distributed) are slightly
different, hence we may end up with slightly different libraries.
Originally, having "bison" installed was optional. So if "bison" was
not present, we always built libraries with the distributed plural.c.
If bison was installed, we *** may have *** replaced the distributed
file plural.c with a new plural.c generated from plural.y. if the
timestamps triggered this rule:
plural.c plural.y
$(BISON) $(BISONFLAGS) $@ $^
Given that timestamps are not preserved in GIT repositories, the above
rule is not reliable without explicitly touching plural.c or plural.y.
In other words, the rule may or may not have fired.
In summary: there are two distinct sources of non-determinism:
1. Having "bison" installed or not
2. Having "bison" installed but timestamps poorly defined.
This patch fixes this by requiring "bison" being installed
and by always generating intl/plural.c from intl/plural.y.
(This is achieved by simply removing checked-in intl/plural.c)
[BZ #22432]
* configure.ac (BISON): Require to be present.
* configure: Regenerated.
* intl/Makefile (generated): Add plural.c.
[$(BISON) != no]: Make code unconditional.
(plural.c): Change rule to $(objpfx)plural.c.
($(objpfx)plural.o): Depend on $(objpfx)plural.c.
* intl/plural.c: Remove.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document bison as
required.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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Update all sourceware links to https. The website redirects
everything to https anyway so let the web server do a bit less work.
The only reference that remains unchanged is the one in the old
ChangeLog, since it didn't seem worth changing it.
* NEWS: Update sourceware link to https.
* configure.ac: Likewise.
* crypt/md5test-giant.c: Likewise.
* dlfcn/bug-atexit1.c: Likewise.
* dlfcn/bug-atexit2.c: Likewise.
* localedata/README: Likewise.
* malloc/tst-mallocfork.c: Likewise.
* manual/install.texi: Likewise.
* nptl/tst-pthread-getattr.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tst-fgets.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tst-fwrite.c: Likewise.
* sunrpc/Makefile: Likewise.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memcpy_impl.S: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/tst-mbrtowc2.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerate.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
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glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be
integrated into the glibc build. Such add-ons may be within the glibc
source tree, or outside it at a path passed to the --enable-add-ons
configure option.
localedata and crypt were once add-ons, distributed in separate
release tarballs, but long since stopped using that mechanism.
Linuxthreads was always an add-on. Ports spent some time as an add-on
with separate release tarballs, then was first moved into the glibc
source tree, then had its sysdeps files moved into the main sysdeps
hierarchy so the add-ons mechanism was no longer used. NPTL spent
some time as an add-on in the main glibc tree before stopping using
the add-on mechanism. libidn used to have separate release tarballs
but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the
glibc source tree. Various other software has supported building with
the add-ons mechanism at times in the past, but I don't think any is
still widely used.
Add-ons involve significant, little-used complexity in the glibc build
system, and make it hard to understand what the space of possible
glibc configurations is. This patch removes the add-ons mechanism.
libidn is now built via the Subdirs mechanism to cause any
configuration using sysdeps/unix/inet to build libidn; HAVE_LIBIDN
(which effectively means shared libraries are available) is now
defined via sysdeps/unix/inet/configure. Various references to
add-ons around the source tree are removed (in the case of maint.texi,
the example list of sysdeps directories is still very out of date).
Externally maintained ports should now put their files in the normal
sysdeps directory structure rather than being arranged as add-ons;
they probably need to change e.g. elf.h anyway, rather than actually
being able to work just as a drop-in subtree. Hurd libpthread should
be arranged similarly to NPTL, so some files might go in a
hurd-pthreads (or similar) top-level directory in glibc, while sysdeps
files should go in the normal sysdeps directory structure (possibly in
hurd or hurd-pthreads subdirectories, just as there are nptl
subdirectories in the sysdeps tree).
Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py.
* configure.ac (--enable-add-ons): Remove option.
(machine): Do not mention add-ons in comment.
(LIBC_PRECONFIGURE): Likewise.
(add_ons): Remove variable and sanity checks and logic to locate
add-ons.
(add_ons_automatic): Remove variable.
(configured_add_ons): Likewise.
(add_ons_sfx): Likewise.
(add_ons_pfx): Likewise.
(add_on_subdirs): Likewise.
(sysnames_add_ons): Likewise. Remove loop over add-ons and
consideration of add-ons in Implies handling.
(sysdeps_add_ons): Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* libidn/configure.ac: Remove.
* libidn/configure: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure: New generated file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/Subdirs: Add libidn.
* Makeconfig (sysdeps-srcdirs): Remove variable.
(+sysdep_dirs): Do not include $(sysdeps-srcdirs).
($(common-objpfx)config.status): Do not depend on add-on files.
($(common-objpfx)shlib-versions.v.i): Do not mention add-ons in
comment.
(all-subdirs): Do not include $(add-on-subdirs).
* Makefile (dist-prepare): Do not use $(sysdeps-add-ons).
* config.make.in (add-ons): Remove variable.
(add-on-subdirs): Likewise.
(sysdeps-add-ons): Likewise.
* manual/Makefile (add-chapters): Remove.
($(objpfx)texis): Do not depend on $(add-chapters).
(nonexamples): Do not handle $(add-chapters).
(examples): Do not handle $(add-ons).
(chapters.% top-menu.%): Do not pass '$(add-chapters)' to
libc-texinfo.sh.
* manual/install.texi (Installation): Do not mention add-ons.
(--enable-add-ons): Do not document configure option.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* manual/libc-texinfo.sh: Do not handle $2 add-ons argument.
* manual/maint.texi (Hierarchy Conventions): Do not mention
add-ons.
* scripts/build-many-glibcs.py (Glibc.build_glibc): Do not use
--enable-add-ons.
* scripts/gen-sorted.awk: Do not handle Subdirs files from
add-ons.
* scripts/test-installation.pl: Do not handle glibc-compat add-on.
* sysdeps/nptl/Makeconfig: Do not mention add-ons in comment.
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* config.make.in: Enable experimental malloc option.
* configure.ac: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerate.
* manual/install.texi: Document it.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
* malloc/Makefile: Likewise.
* malloc/malloc.c: Add per-thread cache (tcache).
(tcache_put): New.
(tcache_get): New.
(tcache_thread_freeres): New.
(tcache_init): New.
(__libc_malloc): Use cached chunks if available.
(__libc_free): Initialize tcache if needed.
(__libc_realloc): Likewise.
(__libc_calloc): Likewise.
(_int_malloc): Prefill tcache when appropriate.
(_int_free): Likewise.
(do_set_tcache_max): New.
(do_set_tcache_count): New.
(do_set_tcache_unsorted_limit): New.
* manual/probes.texi: Document new probes.
* malloc/arena.c: Add new tcache tunables.
* elf/dl-tunables.list: Likewise.
* manual/tunables.texi: Document them.
* NEWS: Mention the per-thread cache.
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This patch implements a requirement of binutils >= 2.25 (up from 2.22)
to build glibc. Tests for 2.24 or later on x86_64 and s390 are
removed. It was already the case, as indicated by buildbot results,
that 2.24 was too old for building tests for 32-bit x86 (produced
internal linker errors linking elf/tst-gnu2-tls1mod.so). I don't know
if any configure tests for binutils features are obsolete given the
increased version requirement.
Tested for x86_64.
* configure.ac (AS): Require binutils 2.25 or later.
(LD): Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/s390/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check.
* sysdeps/s390/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for binutils 2.25 or later.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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On powerpc64le, support for float128 will be enabled, which requires some
compiler features to be present. This patch adds a configure test to check
for such features, which are provided for powerpc64le since GCC 6.2.
Tested for powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
* manual/install.texi (Recommended Tools for Compilation): Mention
the powerpc64le-specific requirement in the manual.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64le/configure.ac: New file with checks
for the compiler features required for building float128.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64le/configure: New, auto-generated file.
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This patch makes configure require GCC 4.9 or later for building
glibc, and documents that requirement. Requiring GCC 4.9 or later
allows use of _Generic (as in tzcode). It would allow <stdatomic.h>
and _Atomic to be used as well if desired, although we need to avoid
any libatomic dependencies on any platforms. This patch is explicitly
the minimum to implement a new version requirement, with any
consequent cleanups of conditional code (not in installed headers or
files shared with gnulib etc.) to be done separately.
Tested for x86_64.
* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 4.9 or later.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for GCC 4.9 or later.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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All of the major architectures are adopting tunables as a way to add
tuning to the library, from hwcap_mask for aarch64 to HLE for s390 and
ifunc and cache geometry for x86. Given this adoption and the fact
that we don't want additional tuning knobs to be added outside of
tunables, it makes sense to enable tunables by default using this
trivial patch.
Smoke tested on x86 to ensure that tunables code was built without
specifying it as a configure flag. I have kept it as --enabled and
not changed it to --disable since we want to still keep the option of
different kinds of front-ends for tunables.
* configure.ac(--enable-tunables): Enable by default.
* configure: Regenerate.
* NEWS: Mention change.
* manual/install.texi (enable-tunables): Adjust documentation.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
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Simplify the Linux accept4 implementation based on the assumption
that it is available in some way. __ASSUME_ACCEPT4_SOCKETCALL was
previously unused, so remove it.
For ia64, the accept4 system call (and socket call) were backported
in kernel version 3.2.18. Reflect this in the installation
instructions.
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* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update GCC version
known to work to build glibc.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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At the GNU Tools Cauldron 2016, the state of the current tunables
patchset was considered OK with the addition of a way to select the
frontend to be used for the tunables. That is, to avoid being locked
in to one type of frontend initially, it should be possible to build
tunables with a different frontend with something as simple as a
configure switch.
To that effect, this patch enhances the --enable-tunables option to
accept more values than just 'yes' or 'no'. The current frontend (and
default when enable-tunables is 'yes') is called 'valstring', to
select the frontend where a single environment variable is set to a
colon-separated value string. More such frontends can be added in
future.
* Makeconfig (have-tunables): Check for non-negative instead
of positive.
* configure.ac: Add 'valstring' as a valid value for
--enable-tunables.
* configure: Regenerate.
* elf/Makefile (have-tunables): Check for non-negative instead
of positive.
(CPPFLAGS-dl-tunables.c): Define TUNABLES_FRONTEND for
dl-tunables.c.
* elf/dl-tunables.c (GLIBC_TUNABLES): Define only when
TUNABLES_FRONTEND == TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring.
(tunables_strdup): Likewise.
(disable_tunables): Likewise.
(parse_tunables): Likewise.
(__tunables_init): Process GLIBC_TUNABLES envvar only when.
TUNABLES_FRONTEND == TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring.
* elf/dl-tunables.h (TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring): New macro.
(TUNABLES_FRONTEND_yes): New macro, define as
TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring by default.
* manual/install.texi: Document new acceptable values for
--enable-tunables.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
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The tunables framework allows us to uniformly manage and expose global
variables inside glibc as switches to users. tunables/README has
instructions for glibc developers to add new tunables.
Tunables support can be enabled by passing the --enable-tunables
configure flag to the configure script. This patch only adds a
framework and does not pose any limitations on how tunable values are
read from the user. It also adds environment variables used in malloc
behaviour tweaking to the tunables framework as a PoC of the
compatibility interface.
* manual/install.texi: Add --enable-tunables option.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
* README.tunables: New file.
* Makeconfig (CPPFLAGS): Define TOP_NAMESPACE.
(before-compile): Generate dl-tunable-list.h early.
* config.h.in: Add HAVE_TUNABLES.
* config.make.in: Add have-tunables.
* configure.ac: Add --enable-tunables option.
* configure: Regenerate.
* csu/init-first.c (__libc_init_first): Move
__libc_init_secure earlier...
* csu/init-first.c (LIBC_START_MAIN):... to here.
Include dl-tunables.h, libc-internal.h.
(LIBC_START_MAIN) [!SHARED]: Initialize tunables for static
binaries.
* elf/Makefile (dl-routines): Add dl-tunables.
* elf/Versions (ld): Add __tunable_set_val to GLIBC_PRIVATE
namespace.
* elf/dl-support (_dl_nondynamic_init): Unset MALLOC_CHECK_
only when !HAVE_TUNABLES.
* elf/rtld.c (process_envvars): Likewise.
* elf/dl-sysdep.c [HAVE_TUNABLES]: Include dl-tunables.h
(_dl_sysdep_start): Call __tunables_init.
* elf/dl-tunable-types.h: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.c: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.h: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.list: New file.
* malloc/tst-malloc-usable-static.c: New test case.
* malloc/Makefile (tests-static): Add it.
* malloc/arena.c [HAVE_TUNABLES]: Include dl-tunables.h.
Define TUNABLE_NAMESPACE.
(DL_TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_mallopt_check)): New function.
(DL_TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL): New macro. Use it to define
callback functions.
(ptmalloc_init): Set tunable values.
* scripts/gen-tunables.awk: New file.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c: Include dl-tunables.h.
(_dl_sysdep_start): Call __tunables_init.
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This adds =all and =strong, with obvious semantics, defaulting to off.
We don't validate the value of the option yet: that's in a later patch.
Nor do we use it for anything at this stage.
We differentiate between 'the compiler understands -fstack-protector'
and 'the user wanted -fstack-protector' so that we can pass
-fno-stack-protector in appropriate places even if the user didn't want
to turn on -fstack-protector for other parts. (This helps us overcome
another existing limitation, that glibc doesn't work with GCCs hacked
to pass in -fstack-protector by default.)
We also arrange to set the STACK_PROTECTOR_LEVEL #define to a value
appropriate for the stack-protection level in use for each file in
particular.
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This patch adds pretty printers for the following NPTL types:
- pthread_mutex_t
- pthread_mutexattr_t
- pthread_cond_t
- pthread_condattr_t
- pthread_rwlock_t
- pthread_rwlockattr_t
To load the pretty printers into your gdb session, do the following:
python
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/glibc/build/nptl/pretty-printers')
end
source /path/to/glibc/source/pretty-printers/nptl-printers.py
You can check which printers are registered and enabled by issuing the
'info pretty-printer' gdb command. Printers should trigger automatically when
trying to print a variable of one of the types mentioned above.
The printers are architecture-independent, and were tested on an AMD64 running
Ubuntu 14.04 and an x86 VM running Fedora 24.
In order to work, the printers need to know the values of various flags that
are scattered throughout pthread.h and pthreadP.h as enums and #defines. Since
replicating these constants in the printers file itself would create a
maintenance burden, I wrote a script called gen-py-const.awk that Makerules uses
to extract the constants. This script is pretty much the same as gen-as-const.awk,
except it doesn't cast the constant values to 'long' and is thorougly documented.
The constants need only to be enumerated in a .pysym file, which is then referenced
by a Make variable called gen-py-const-headers.
As for the install directory, I discussed this with Mike Frysinger and Siddhesh
Poyarekar, and we agreed that it can be handled in a separate patch, and shouldn't
block merging of this one.
In addition, I've written a series of test cases for the pretty printers.
Each lock type (mutex, condvar and rwlock) has two test programs, one for itself
and other for its related 'attributes' object. Each test program in turn has a
PExpect-based Python script that drives gdb and compares its output to the
expected printer's. The tests run on the glibc host, which is assumed to have
both gdb and PExpect; if either is absent the tests will fail with code 77
(UNSUPPORTED). For cross-testing you should use cross-test-ssh.sh as test-wrapper.
I've tested the printers on both native builds and a cross build using a Beaglebone
Black running Debian, with the build system's filesystem shared with the board
through NFS.
Finally, I've written a README that explains all this and more.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* Makeconfig: Add comments and whitespace to make the control flow
clearer.
(+link-printers-tests, +link-pie-printers-tests, CFLAGS-printers-tests,
installed-rtld-LDFLAGS, built-rtld-LDFLAGS, link-libc-rpath,
link-libc-tests-after-rpath-link, link-libc-printers-tests): New.
(rtld-LDFLAGS, rtld-tests-LDFLAGS, link-libc-tests-rpath-link,
link-libc-tests): Use the new variables as required.
* Makerules ($(py-const)): New rule.
generated: Add $(py-const).
* README.pretty-printers: New file.
* Rules (tests-printers-programs, tests-printers-out, py-env): New.
(others): Depend on $(py-const).
(tests): Depend on $(tests-printers-programs) or $(tests-printers-out),
as required. Pass $(tests-printers) to merge-test-results.sh.
* manual/install.texi: Add requirements for testing the pretty printers.
* nptl/Makefile (gen-py-const-headers, pretty-printers, tests-printers,
CFLAGS-test-mutexattr-printers.c CFLAGS-test-mutex-printers.c,
CFLAGS-test-condattr-printers.c, CFLAGS-test-cond-printers.c,
CFLAGS-test-rwlockattr-printers.c CFLAGS-test-rwlock-printers.c,
tests-printers-libs): Define.
* nptl/nptl-printers.py: New file.
* nptl/nptl_lock_constants.pysym: Likewise.
* nptl/test-cond-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-cond-printers.py: Likewise.
* nptl/test-condattr-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-condattr-printers.py: Likewise.
* nptl/test-mutex-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-mutex-printers.py: Likewise.
* nptl/test-mutexattr-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-mutexattr-printers.py: Likewise.
* nptl/test-rwlock-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-rwlock-printers.py: Likewise.
* nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers.c: Likewise.
* nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers.py: Likewise.
* scripts/gen-py-const.awk: Likewise.
* scripts/test_printers_common.py: Likewise.
* scripts/test_printers_exceptions.py: Likewise.
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This patch adds a configure check to test if gcc supports attribute ifunc.
The support can either be enabled in <gcc-src>/gcc/config.gcc for one
architecture in general by setting default_gnu_indirect_function variable to yes
or by configuring gcc with --enable-gnu-indirect-function.
The next patch rewrites libc_ifunc macro to use gcc attribute ifunc instead
of inline assembly to generate the IFUNC symbols due to false debuginfo.
If gcc does not support attribute ifunc, the old approach for generating
ifunc'ed symbols is used. Then the debug-information is false. Thus it is
recommended to use a gcc with indirect function support (See notes in INSTALL).
After this patch-series these inline assemblies for ifunc-handling are not
scattered in multiple files but are used only indirect via ifunc-macros
and can simply removed in libc-symbols.h in future.
If glibc is configured with --enable-multi-arch and gcc does not support
attribute ifunc, a configure warning is dumped!
ChangeLog:
* config.h.in (HAVE_GCC_IFUNC): New undef.
* configure.ac: Add check if gcc supports attribute ifunc feature.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi: Add recommendation for gcc with
indirect-function support.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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2016-05-06 Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>
* manual/install.texi: Fix typos in the manual.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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* manual/install.texi: Remove mention of --without-tls
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
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In <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00885.html> I
proposed a minimum Linux kernel version of 3.2 for glibc 2.24, since
Linux 2.6.32 has reached EOL.
In the discussion in February, some concerns were expressed about
compatibility with OpenVZ containers. It's not clear that these are
real issues, given OpenVZ backporting kernel features and faking the
kernel version for guest software, as discussed in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00278.html>. It's
also not clear that supporting running GNU/Linux distributions from
late 2016 (at the earliest) on a kernel series from 2009 is a sensible
expectation. However, as an interim step, this patch increases the
requirement everywhere except x86 / x86_64 (since the controversy was
only about those architectures); the special caveats and settings can
easily be removed later when we're ready to increase the requirements
on x86 / x86_64 (and if someone would like to raise the issue on LWN
as suggested in the previous discussion, that would be welcome). 3.2
kernel headers are required everywhere by this patch.
(x32 already requires 3.4 or later, so is unaffected by this patch.)
As usual for such a change, this patch only changes the configure
scripts and associated documentation. The intent is to follow up with
removal of dead __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION conditionals. Each __ASSUME_*
or other macro that becomes dead can then be removed independently.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac (LIBC_LINUX_VERSION):
Define to 3.2.0.
(arch_minimum_kernel): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure.ac (arch_minimum_kernel):
Define to 2.6.32.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure.ac
(arch_minimum_kernel): Define to 2.6.32.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure: Regenerated.
* README: Document Linux 3.2 requirement.
* manual/install.texi (Linux): Document Linux 3.2 headers
requirement.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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This patch implements a requirement of GCC 4.7 or later to build
glibc.
This was discussed in the thread starting at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00851.html>.
Concerns were expressed by Mike and David. At
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-10/msg00453.html> I have
provided a 14-patch series showing in outline the cleanups facilitated
by this version requirement, as requested by Mike (this patch is the
first in that series, with the addition of a NEWS entry). Given the
absence of further concerns or alternative proposals for criteria for
updates to this version requirement as requested in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-10/msg00065.html>, I am
interpreting this as "absence of sustained opposition" under Carlos's
definition at <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus> and
proposing this patch for inclusion in glibc. I'd like to remind
people testing with 4.6 that if they move to testing with GCC 5 then
it will probably be about four years before they need to update the
compiler they use to test glibc again.
Although on the principles of time-based updates I think a move to
requiring binutils 2.23 would be reasonable, I'm not currently aware
of any cleanups that would facilitate so am not proposing that at this
time (but would expect to propose a move to requiring binutils 2.24 in
a year's time, as that brings features such as AVX512 support that
should allow some conditionals to be cleaned up). If someone thinks a
move to requiring 2.23 would help clean things up for their
architecture, please speak up. (And in general, I suspect there are
lots of architecture-specific configure tests that could be removed on
the basis of current GCC and binutils version requirements, given how
I've found architecture-independent tests obsolete on the basis of
version requirements going back 20 years.)
Tested for x86_64 and x86 (testsuite, and that installed shared
libraries are unchanged by the patch).
* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 4.7 or later.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for GCC 4.7 or later.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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Reported-by: ricaljasan@pacific.net
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Some distros build+install the timezone tools (zic/zdump/tzselect) outside
of glibc and use the upstream package directly. Add a configure flag to
glibc so they can disable install of those tools.
This allows tests to run & pass regardless of the configure flag. Only
the install of them is impacted.
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a non-standard directory specified by the prefix make variable
fails with an error. Since this is an unsupported use case,
this change makes make install fail early and with a descriptive
error message when either the prefix or the exec_prefix make
variable is overridden on the command line.
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Here is implementation of cos containing SSE, AVX, AVX2 and AVX512
versions according to Vector ABI which had been discussed in
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/x86-64-abi/LmppCfN1rZ4>.
Vector math library build and ABI testing enabled by default for x86_64.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/Makefile: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/Versions: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos_data.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos_data.h: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos2_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos4_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos4_core_avx.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos8_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_wrapper_impl.h: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos2_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos2_core_sse4.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos4_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos4_core_avx2.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos8_core.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos8_core_avx512.S: New file.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/Makefile (libmvec-sysdep_routines): Added
build of SSE, AVX2 and AVX512 IFUNC versions.
* sysdeps/x86/fpu/bits/math-vector.h: Added SIMD declaration for cos.
* math/bits/mathcalls.h: Added cos declaration with __MATHCALL_VEC.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac: Options for libmvec build.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/x86_64/sysdep.h (cfi_offset_rel_rsp): New macro.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/libmvec.abilist: New file.
* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Document
--disable-mathvec.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* NEWS: Mention addition of libmvec and x86_64 vector cos.
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Update all translations.
Update contributions in the manual.
Update installation notes with information about newest working tools.
Reconfigure using exactly autoconf 2.69.
Regenerate INSTALL.
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The merge of the latest gettext code introduced changes to the yacc
parser source that are incompatible with versions of bison older
than 2.7. Add a configure check for the appropriate versions and
document the requirement in INSTALL.
ChangeLog:
2014-12-22 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* manual/install.texi: Document that we require bison 2.7
or above.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Use AC_CHECK_PROG_VER instead of
AC_PATH_PROG when checking for bison and check for
version 2.7 or above.
* configure: Regenerate.
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It seems we require texinfo 4.7 for the --plaintext option, so
document that and check for the correct version in configure.
ChangeLog:
2014-12-15 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* manual/install.texi: Bump required version of texinfo
to 4.7 from 4.5.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* configure.ac: Check for makeinfo version 4.7 and above.
* configure: Regenerated.
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As discussed starting at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00323.html>, this
patch makes the glibc build use -Werror by default to avoid
accidentally adding new warnings to the build. The configure option
--disable-werror can be used to disable this.
-Wno-error=undef is temporarily used because the build isn't clean
regarding -Wundef warnings. The idea is that once the remaining
-Wundef warnings have been cleaned up (in at least one configuration),
-Wno-error=undef will be removed.
I get a clean build and test on x86_64 (GCC 4.9 branch) with this
patch. The expectation is that this may well break the build for some
other configurations, and people seeing such breakage should make
appropriate fixes to fix or suppress the warnings for their
configurations. In some cases that may involve using pragmas as the
right fix (I think that will be right for the -Wno-inline issue for
MIPS I referred to in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-11/msg00798.html>, for
example), in some cases -Wno-error in sysdeps makefiles (__restore_rt
in MIPS sigaction, for example), in some cases substantive fixes for
the warnings.
Note that if, with a view to listing all the warnings then fixing them
all, you just look for "warning:" in output from building and testing
with --disable-werror, you'll see lots of warnings from the linker
about functions such as tmpnam. Those warnings can be ignored - only
compiler warnings are relevant to -Werror, not linker warnings.
* configure.ac (--disable-werror): New configure option.
(enable_werror): New AC_SUBST.
* configure: Regenerated.
* config.make.in (enable-werror): New variable.
* Makeconfig [$(enable-werror) = yes] (+gccwarn): Add -Werror
-Wno-error=undef.
(+gccwarn-c): Do not use -Werror=implicit-function-declaration.
* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Document
--disable-werror.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* debug/Makefile (CFLAGS-tst-chk1.c): Add -Wno-error.
(CFLAGS-tst-chk2.c): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-chk3.c): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-chk4.cc): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-chk5.cc): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-chk6.cc): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk1.c): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk2.c): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk3.c): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk4.cc): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk5.cc): Likewise.
(CFLAGS-tst-lfschk6.cc): Likewise.
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As discussed in the thread starting at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-10/msg00792.html>, and
continuing into November, this patch increases the minimum GCC version
for building glibc to 4.6 (there seemed to be no clear consensus for
4.7). In particular, this allows us to use #pragma GCC diagnostic for
fine-grained warning control with -Werror (subject to establishing a
suitable policy for that use). The documentation has a statement, as
requested, about the most recent GCC version tested for building
glibc, and I've updated <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release> to
refer to updating that statement. A NEWS entry is added for this
change, although previous such changes didn't get them.
Tested for x86_64 (testsuite, and that installed shared libraries are
unchanged by this patch).
* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 4.6 or later.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document a
requirement of GCC 4.6 or later and that GCC 4.9 is the newest
compiler verified to work.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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I noticed that install.texi was out of date with regard to the actual
autoconf version requirement for regenerating configure scripts. This
patch updates the documentation.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update autoconf
version requirements.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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Various glibc build / install / test code has C locale settings that
are redundant with LC_ALL=C.
LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG, so anywhere that sets LC_ALL=C
(explicitly, or through it being in the default environment for
running tests) does not need to set LANG=C. LC_ALL=C also takes
precedence over LANGUAGE, since
2001-01-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
* intl/dcigettext.c (guess_category_value): Rewrite so that LANGUAGE
value is ignored if the selected locale is the C locale.
* intl/tst-gettext.c: Set locale for above change.
* intl/tst-translit.c: Likewise.
and so settings of LANGUAGE=C are also redundant when LC_ALL=C is
set. One test also had LC_ALL=C in its -ENV setting, although it's
part of the default environment used for tests.
This patch removes the redundant settings. It removes a suggestion in
install.texi of setting LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C for "make install"; the
Makefile.in target "install" already sets LC_ALL_C so there's no need
for the user to set it (and nor should there be any need for the user
to set it).
If some build machine tool used by "make install" uses a version of
libintl predating that 2001 change, and the user has LANGUAGE set, the
removal of LANGUAGE=C from the Makefile.in "install" rule could in
principle affect the user's installation. However, I don't think we
need to be concerned about pre-2001 build tools.
Tested x86_64.
* Makefile (install): Don't set LANGUAGE.
* Makefile.in (install): Likewise.
* assert/Makefile (test-assert-ENV): Remove variable.
(test-assert-perr-ENV): Likewise.
* elf/Makefile (neededtest4-ENV): Likewise.
* iconvdata/Makefile ($(inst_gconvdir)/gconv-modules)
[$(cross-compiling) = no]: Don't set LANGUAGE.
* io/ftwtest-sh (LANG): Remove variable.
* libio/Makefile (tst-widetext-ENV): Likewise.
* manual/install.texi (Running make install): Don't refer to
environment settings for make install.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* nptl/tst-tls6.sh: Don't set LANG.
* posix/globtest.sh (LANG): Remove variable.
* string/Makefile (tester-ENV): Likewise.
(inl-tester-ENV): Likewise.
(noinl-tester-ENV): Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/s390-64/Makefile ($(inst_gconvdir)/gconv-modules)
[$(cross-compiling) = no]: Don't set LANGUAGE.
* timezone/Makefile (build-testdata): Use $(built-program-cmd)
without explicit environment settings.
localedata/ChangeLog:
* tst-fmon.sh: Don't set LANGUAGE.
* tst-locale.sh: Likewise.
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consistent environment.
One wart in the original support for test wrappers for cross testing,
as noted in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-10/msg00722.html>, is the
requirement for test wrappers to pass a poorly-defined set of
environment variables from the build system to the system running the
glibc under test. Although some variables are passed explicitly via
$(test-wrapper-env), including LD_* variables that simply can't be
passed implicitly because of the side effects they'd have on the build
system's dynamic linker, others are passed implicitly, including
variables such as GCONV_PATH and LOCPATH that could potentially affect
the build system's libc (so effectively relying on any such effects
not breaking the wrappers). In addition, the code in
cross-test-ssh.sh for preserving environment variables is fragile (it
depends on how bash formats a list of exported variables, and could
well break for multi-line variable definitions where the contents
contain things looking like other variable definitions).
This patch moves to explicitly passing environment variables via
$(test-wrapper-env). Makefile variables that previously used
$(test-wrapper) are split up into -before-env and -after-env parts
that can be passed separately to the various .sh files used in
testing, so those files can then insert environment settings between
the two parts.
The common default environment settings in make-test-out are made into
a separate makefile variable that can also be passed to scripts,
rather than many scripts duplicating those settings (for testing an
installed glibc, it is desirable to have the GCONV_PATH setting on
just one place, so just that one place needs to support it pointing to
an installed sysroot instead of the build tree). The default settings
are included in the variables such as $(test-program-prefix), so that
if tests do not need any non-default settings they can continue to use
single variables rather than the split-up variables.
Although this patch cleans up LC_ALL=C settings (that being part of
the common defaults), various LANG=C and LANGUAGE=C settings remain.
Those are generally unnecessary and I propose a subsequent cleanup to
remove them. LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG, and while LANGUAGE
takes precedence over LC_ALL, it only does so for settings other than
LC_ALL=C. So LC_ALL=C on its own is sufficient to ensure the C
locale, and anything that gets LC_ALL=C does not need the other
settings.
While preparing this patch I noticed some tests with .sh files that
appeared to do nothing beyond what the generic makefile support for
tests can do (localedata/tst-wctype.sh - the makefiles support -ENV
variables and .input files - and localedata/tst-mbswcs.sh - just runs
five tests that could be run individually from the makefile). So I
propose another subsequent cleanup to move those to using the generic
support instead of special .sh files.
Tested x86_64 (native) and powerpc32 (cross).
* Makeconfig (run-program-env): New variable.
(run-program-prefix-before-env): Likewise.
(run-program-prefix-after-env): Likewise.
(run-program-prefix): Define in terms of new variables.
(built-program-cmd-before-env): New variable.
(built-program-cmd-after-env): Likewise.
(built-program-cmd): Define in terms of new variables.
(test-program-prefix-before-env): New variable.
(test-program-prefix-after-env): Likewise.
(test-program-prefix): Define in terms of new variables.
(test-program-cmd-before-env): New variable.
(test-program-cmd-after-env): Likewise.
(test-program-cmd): Define in terms of new variables.
* Rules (make-test-out): Use $(run-program-env).
* scripts/cross-test-ssh.sh (env_blacklist): Remove variable.
(help): Do not mention environment variables. Mention
--timeoutfactor option.
(timeoutfactor): New variable.
(blacklist_exports): Remove function.
(exports): Remove variable.
(command): Do not include ${exports}.
* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Do not mention
test wrappers preserving environment variables. Mention that last
assignment to a variable must take precedence.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* benchtests/Makefile (run-bench): Use $(run-program-env).
* catgets/Makefile ($(objpfx)test1.cat): Use
$(built-program-cmd-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(built-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)test2.cat): Do not specify environment variables
explicitly.
($(objpfx)de/libc.cat): Use $(built-program-cmd-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(built-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)test-gencat.out): Use $(test-program-cmd-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(test-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)sample.SJIS.cat): Do not specify environment variables
explicitly.
* catgets/test-gencat.sh: Use test_program_cmd_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_cmd_after_env arguments.
* elf/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-pathopt.out): Use $(run-program-env).
* elf/tst-pathopt.sh: Use run_program_env argument.
* iconvdata/Makefile ($(objpfx)iconv-test.out): Use
$(test-wrapper-env) and $(run-program-env).
* iconvdata/run-iconv-test.sh: Use test_wrapper_env and
run_program_env arguments.
* iconvdata/tst-table.sh: Do not set GCONV_PATH explicitly.
* intl/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-gettext.out): Use
$(test-program-prefix-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(test-program-prefix-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-gettext2.out): Likewise.
* intl/tst-gettext.sh: Use test_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
* intl/tst-gettext2.sh: Likewise.
* intl/tst-gettext4.sh: Do not set environment variables
explicitly.
* intl/tst-gettext6.sh: Likewise.
* intl/tst-translit.sh: Likewise.
* malloc/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-mtrace.out): Use
$(test-program-prefix-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(test-program-prefix-after-env).
* malloc/tst-mtrace.sh: Use test_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
* math/Makefile (run-regen-ulps): Use $(run-program-env).
* nptl/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-tls6.out): Use $(run-program-env).
* nptl/tst-tls6.sh: Use run_program_env argument. Set LANG=C
explicitly with each use of ${test_wrapper_env}.
* posix/Makefile ($(objpfx)wordexp-tst.out): Use
$(test-program-prefix-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(test-program-prefix-after-env).
* posix/tst-getconf.sh: Do not set environment variables
explicitly.
* posix/wordexp-tst.sh: Use test_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
* stdio-common/tst-printf.sh: Do not set environment variables
explicitly.
* stdlib/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-fmtmsg.out): Use
$(test-program-prefix-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(test-program-prefix-after-env).
* stdlib/tst-fmtmsg.sh: Use test_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
Split $test calls into $test_pre and $test.
* timezone/Makefile (build-testdata): Use
$(built-program-cmd-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(built-program-cmd-after-env).
localedata/ChangeLog:
* Makefile ($(addprefix $(objpfx),$(CTYPE_FILES))): Use
$(built-program-cmd-before-env), $(run-program-env) and
$(built-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)sort-test.out): Use $(test-program-prefix-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(test-program-prefix-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-fmon.out): Use $(run-program-prefix-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(run-program-prefix-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-locale.out): Use $(built-program-cmd-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(built-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-trans.out): Use $(run-program-prefix-before-env),
$(run-program-env), $(run-program-prefix-after-env),
$(test-program-prefix-before-env) and
$(test-program-prefix-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-ctype.out): Use $(test-program-cmd-before-env),
$(run-program-env) and $(test-program-cmd-after-env).
($(objpfx)tst-wctype.out): Likewise.
($(objpfx)tst-langinfo.out): Likewise.
($(objpfx)tst-langinfo-static.out): Likewise.
* gen-locale.sh: Use localedef_before_env, run_program_env and
localedef_after_env arguments.
* sort-test.sh: Use test_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env and test_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
* tst-ctype.sh: Use tst_ctype_before_env, run_program_env and
tst_ctype_after_env arguments.
* tst-fmon.sh: Use run_program_prefix_before_env, run_program_env
and run_program_prefix_after_env arguments.
* tst-langinfo.sh: Use tst_langinfo_before_env, run_program_env
and tst_langinfo_after_env arguments.
* tst-locale.sh: Use localedef_before_env, run_program_env and
localedef_after_env arguments.
* tst-mbswcs.sh: Do not set environment variables explicitly.
* tst-numeric.sh: Likewise.
* tst-rpmatch.sh: Likewise.
* tst-trans.sh: Use run_program_prefix_before_env,
run_program_env, run_program_prefix_after_env,
test_program_prefix_before_env and test_program_prefix_after_env
arguments.
* tst-wctype.sh: Use tst_wctype_before_env, run_program_env and
tst_wctype_after_env arguments.
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This patch increases the minimum Linux kernel version for glibc to
2.6.32, as discussed in the thread starting at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00511.html>.
This patch just does the minimal change to arch_minimum_kernel
settings (and LIBC_LINUX_VERSION, which determines the minimum kernel
headers version, as it doesn't make sense for that to be older than
the minimum kernel that can be used at runtime). Followups would be
expected to do, roughly and not necessarily precisely in this order:
* Remove __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks in kernel-features.h files
where those checks are always true / always false for kernels 2.6.32
and above.
* Otherwise simplify/improve conditionals in those files (for example,
where defining once in the main file then undefining in
architecture-specific files makes things clearer than having lots of
separate definitions of the same macro), possibly fixing in the
process cases where a macro should optimally have been defined for a
given architecture but wasn't. (In the review in preparation for
this version increase I checked what the right conditions should be
for all macros in the main kernel-features.h whose definitions there
would have been affected by the increase - but I only fixed that
subset of the issues found where --enable-kernel=2.6.32 would have
caused a kernel feature to be wrongly assumed to be present, not any
cases where a feature is not assumed but could be assumed.)
* Remove conditionals on __ASSUME_* where they can now be taken to be
always-true, and the definitions when the macros are only used in
Linux-specific files.
* Split more architectures out of the main kernel-features.h (like
ex-ports architectures), once various of the architecture
conditionals there have been eliminated so the new
architecture-specific files are no larger than actually necessary.
Tested x86_64.
2014-03-27 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[BZ #9894]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac (LIBC_LINUX_VERSION):
Change to 2.6.32.
(arch_minimum_kernel): Change all 2.6.16 settings to 2.6.32.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure.ac: Remove file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure.ac: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure: Likewise.
* README: Update reference to required Linux kernel version.
* manual/install.texi (Linux): Update reference to required Linux
kernel headers version.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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This patch is an updated version of
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00198.html> and
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00180.html>.
Normal practice for software testsuites is that rather than
terminating immediately when a test fails, they continue running and
report at the end on how many tests passed or failed.
The principle behind the glibc testsuite stopping on failure was
probably that the expected state is no failures and so any failure
indicates a problem such as miscompilation. In practice, while this
is fairly close to true for native testing on x86_64 and x86 (kernel
bugs and race conditions can still cause intermittent failures), it's
less likely to be the case on other platforms, and so people testing
glibc run the testsuite with "make -k" and then examine the logs to
determine whether the failures are what they expect to fail on that
platform, possibly with some automation for the comparison.
This patch switches the glibc testsuite to the normal convention of
not stopping on failure - unless you use stop-on-test-failure=y, in
which case it behaves essentially as it did before (and does not
generate overall test summaries on failure). Instead, the summary
tests.sum may contain tests that FAILed. At the end of the test run,
any FAIL or ERROR lines from tests.sum are printed, and then it exits
with error status if there were any such lines. In addition, build
failures will also cause the test run to stop - this has the
justification that those *do* indicate serious problems that should be
promptly fixed and aren't generally hard to fix (but apart from that,
avoiding the build stopping on those failures seems harder).
Note that unlike the previous patches in this series, this *does*
require people with automation around testing glibc to change their
processes - either to start using tests.sum / xtests.sum to track
failures and compare them with expectations (with or without also
using "make -k" and examining "make" logs to identify build failures),
or else to use stop-on-test-failure=y and ignore the new tests.sum /
xtests.sum mechanism. (If all you check is the exit status from "make
check", no changes are needed unless you want to avoid test runs
continuing after the first failure.)
Tested x86_64.
* scripts/evaluate-test.sh: Handle fourth argument to determine
whether test run should stop on failure.
* Makeconfig (stop-on-test-failure): New variable.
(evaluate-test): Pass fourth argument to evaluate-test.sh based on
$(stop-on-test-failure).
* Makefile (tests): Give a summary of results from testing and
exit with failure status if they include an ERROR or FAIL.
(xtests): Likewise.
* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Mention
stop-on-test-failure=y.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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The commit d136c6dc resulted in menu text for the "Top" node being added
to the INSTALL file on regeneration. As the full menu is not displayed
in the plain text file anyway, suppress the menu section completely to
avoid the additional text.
Also regenerate the INSTALL file to commit a small formatting change
introduced in the same commit.
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Autoconf has been deprecating configure.in for quite a long time.
Rename all our configure.in and preconfigure.in files to .ac.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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The pt-chown binary is discussed in the "Running make install" section
without clarification of the needed configure option. Clarify this
and simplfy the discription which is already covered in the "Configuring
and compiling" section.
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The helper binary pt_chown tricked into granting access to another
user's pseudo-terminal.
Pre-conditions for the attack:
* Attacker with local user account
* Kernel with FUSE support
* "user_allow_other" in /etc/fuse.conf
* Victim with allocated slave in /dev/pts
Using the setuid installed pt_chown and a weak check on whether a file
descriptor is a tty, an attacker could fake a pty check using FUSE and
trick pt_chown to grant ownership of a pty descriptor that the current
user does not own. It cannot access /dev/pts/ptmx however.
In most modern distributions pt_chown is not needed because devpts
is enabled by default. The fix for this CVE is to disable building
and using pt_chown by default. We still provide a configure option
to enable hte use of pt_chown but distributions do so at their own
risk.
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Can be enabled with --enable-lock-elision=yes at configure time.
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