[RFC] Remove m68k-linux-gnu-coldfire-soft from build-many-glibcs.py

Joseph Myers josmyers@redhat.com
Thu Jan 2 17:22:27 GMT 2025


On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Sam James wrote:

> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > m68k-linux-gnu-coldfire-soft GCC and glibc often won't build due to
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103370
> >
> > which results in build-many-glibcs.py failure.  Should it be removed
> > or a command-line option be provided to disable it?
> 
> I think it's noise and it already led to me being confused where Joseph
> had to remind me of that bug, and I'd even known of it peripherally.
> 
> I support dropping it for now. Or having some category to mark it as
> flaky if we have to keep it.

If anything is dropped, maybe it should be the ColdFire support in the GCC 
m68k port (thus implying dropping it in glibc after removing the GCC 
support).  We have both bug 103370 (intermittent for a long time) and bug 
116244 (more recent on GCC mainline) causing problems for this port.

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Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com



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