On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 17:32 -0500, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > Well, I've got a patch that might work, but I'm having a lot of > trouble testing it. > > I can't dpkg-buildpackage the Debian glibc package. > > It gets into the test routines, then a bunch of the math tests crash > with SIGSEGVs and SIGILLs, then I get a bunch of kernel errors: > > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2423)) > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2423)) > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2423)) > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2814)) > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2814)) > no more room in ee26a908 ((...i386-libc/elf/ld.so.1(2814)) > > This happens in either tst-vfprintf-width-prec or tst-mallocfork2, > depending on whether I allocate 2 GB or 4 GB to the virtual machine. > > Any ideas what the problem might be? > > And how are the Debian packages built for downloading? It must be > something different than what I'm doing...
Hi Brent, The testsuite for glibc is known to be broken. Just export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck before building with dpkg-buildpackage -b ... HTH
