Re: Failing ssp tests

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:26:00PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:39:59AM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> >> As an example, doing "echo adlkfjldskfjd | ./h_fgets 11" in
> >> src/tests/lib/libc/ssp results in a crash with the binary built with
> >> USETOOLS=no, but not with the one built with nbmake-amd64 (i.e. the
> >> ones I have in destdir or in /usr/tests/lib/libc/ssp).
> >
> > Works for me (TM). Fresh release build installed into a VM, all tests
> > crash as expected.
> 
> I can imagine it is working well for you and pretty much everyone
> else; otherwise we might have already seen complaints from the
> continuous testers ;-)
> 
> What I'm trying to figure out is what can be causing ssp to not work
> when I'm using nbmake-amd64.  If you take a look at the build logs I
> pasted in the original mail, the gcc commands run in the tools vs.
> non-tools cases are exactly the same -- with the exception of the
> paths used.  That said, the host system should be the same as that in
> the destdir because I installed the new release sets onto / ...

Why not look at the core dump and see why it is failing!

        David

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