On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:02:18PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> - Would it help to just disable the testsuite on the kfreebsd arch?
>   Clearly the package itself build fine. But some tests are failing.
>   Although it would be nice to have 100% PASS as on GNU/Linux, the
>   failures don't look too terrible for a new architecture that has
>   not been tested upstream.
> 
> - Could someone describe the real issue on kfreebsd?
>   Looking at the test failures it looks like there are two issues:
> 
>   - elflint doesn't know about the OS ABI "FreeBSD".
>     - Is this correct in the ELF files? I don't know whether
>       kfreebsd is supposed to follow the user space ELF OS ABI
>       or the kernel one.
>     - If it is the correct OS ABI then what would an elflint program
>       need to know about it to make sure all its requirements are met?

As far as I know, that error is just ignored.

>   - The other failures look like issues with the /proc interface
>     on the install. Does the /proc interface follow the Linux kernel
>     /proc interface that some of the tests rely on? Or is the issue
>     simple that the buildd uses a chroot with /proc not mounted?

The problem here is that the /proc interface inside a chroot gives
a the filename as seen from outside the chroot and so we can't find
that file in the chroot.


Kurt


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