[PATCH 2/2] NEWS: Move testsuite item to end (more developer-oriented)

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Montag, 27. Januar 2025, 13:37:49 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
> 
> On 26/01/25 18:54, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> > No text changes
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> 
> I am not sure if this makes any difference.

Not much, I'll drop that change.

(I was mostly thinking of the typical LWN/Phoronix audience, who is less
enamoured with build system details and more with l33t speedups.)

> 
> > ---
> >  NEWS | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > index 61031c73ed..8137e2c1a0 100644
> > --- a/NEWS
> > +++ b/NEWS
> > @@ -9,19 +9,6 @@ Version 2.41
> >  
> >  Major new features:
> >  
> > -* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
> > -  different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
> > -  added:
> > -  $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
> > -
> > -  This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
> > -  $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
> > -
> > -  Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
> > -
> > -* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
> > -  6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
> > -
> >  * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
> >    flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
> >    For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
> > @@ -112,18 +99,27 @@ Major new features:
> >  * A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
> >    support Hygon x86-64 processors.
> >  
> > +* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
> > +  different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
> > +  added:
> > +  $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
> > +
> > +  This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
> > +  $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
> > +
> > +  Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
> > +
> > +* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
> > +  6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
> > +
> >  Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
> >  compatibility:
> >  
> > -* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> > -
> >  * abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
> >    from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp.  Use
> >    sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
> >    the process execution.
> >  
> > -* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> > -
> >  * dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
> >    library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
> >    ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
> > @@ -131,6 +127,10 @@ compatibility:
> >    stack is not already executable.  Instead, loading such objects will
> >    fail.
> >  
> > +* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> > +
> > +* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> > +
> >  Changes to build and runtime requirements:
> >  
> >  * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
> 
> 


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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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