Changeset 6eaa9e4

Timestamp:

Aug 15, 2006, 9:59:52 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@…>

Children:

4b0b7c7

Parents:

3886e27

Message:

Fix elf/check-textrel for 32-bit in ppc64

Files:

• final-system/ppc64/glibc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/ppc64/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

final-system/ppc64/glibc.xml

@@ -62 +62 @@
     href="../../cross-tools/ppc64/glibc.xml"
     xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='t2'])"/>
+
+    <para os="u1">The powerpc (32) architecture is expected to fail the
+    check-textrel tests because it cannot protect some elf segments in
+    shared libraries from being executable and writable. Using the default
+    64-bit compiler means the test runs as <literal>__powerpc64__</literal>
+    which is <emphasis>not</emphasis> expected to fail. The problem only exists
+    in 32-bit, the 64-bit ABI allows the segments to be protected.</para>
+
+    <para os="u2">Other distributions alter gcc to default to 32-bits and
+    so do not see this failure.  Whether they then test correctly on 64-bit
+    libraries is not our problem.</para>
+
+    <para os="u3">Force the test to use the 32-bit compiler with the following
+    <command>sed</command> :</para>
+
+<screen os="u4"><userinput>sed -i "s/\(^check-textrel-CFLAGS = \)/\1 ${BUILD32} /" elf/Makefile</userinput></screen>
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"

introduction/ppc64/changelog.xml

@@ -35 +35 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>August 15, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Fix textrel test for 32-bit glibc.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>August 13, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>