glibc-2.6.1 test errors

[Athena]

On Friday 05 October 2007 17:31:56 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:25:48 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork 
<jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> >> grep Error /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/test-logs/065-glibc
> >> make[3]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored)
> >>
> >> I'll be running a test on trunk now just to make sure that everything is
> >> kosher.
> >
> > The development book is fine. It looks like those optimizations are
> > causing you problems.
>
> It is known that on different Intel CPUs, glibc chooses at runtime
> different algorithms for certain floating-point operations (grep for
> HWCAP_I386_XMM, for example, which corresponds to SSE support). So here
> it may well be that this part of the Glibc testsuite in fact a testsuite
> for the CPU. For the meaningful comparison of the results, I ask both
> you and the original poster to post the contents of /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> --
> Alexander E. Patrakov


On Friday 05 October 2007 17:31:56 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:25:48 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork 
<jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> >> grep Error /mnt/lfs/jhalfs/test-logs/065-glibc
> >> make[3]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored)
> >>
> >> I'll be running a test on trunk now just to make sure that everything is
> >> kosher.
> >
> > The development book is fine. It looks like those optimizations are
> > causing you problems.
>
> It is known that on different Intel CPUs, glibc chooses at runtime
> different algorithms for certain floating-point operations (grep for
> HWCAP_I386_XMM, for example, which corresponds to SSE support). So here
> it may well be that this part of the Glibc testsuite in fact a testsuite
> for the CPU. For the meaningful comparison of the results, I ask both
> you and the original poster to post the contents of /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> --
> Alexander E. Patrakov


Hello 

As requested my /proc/cpuinfo is attached. 

(Sorry not sure if you guys perfer stuff like this attached or pasted into the 
email body) 

Jeremy: I didn't deviate from chapter 5 at all and the glibc test results 
which i posted were with the default optimization. Strangely dropping the 
optimization back to default seems to increase the math error. 

PS: My apologies in advance if this email arrives twice - for some bizarre 
reason my server (postfix) seemed to throw a wobbler with LFS greylisting!  


Many Thanks
Athena
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