BSP Build Report

[Chris Johns]

On 13/5/17 1:14 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> I sent my patch updating the tools to gcc 7.1 and binutils 2.28.
> Unfortunately, 49 BSPs which used to build all tests with old networking
> enabled now fail to completely even with networking off. Basically 48
> BSPs have one or more test which fails to link due to not fitting in
> memory. Moxie has a different test issue.
> 
> I have not investigated a lot but am suspicious that Chris' recent
> changes for parallelizing the test builds caused this. Some of the tests
> are failing to link by ~100K or more which sounds like they should have
> been on that BSPs exclude list. So maybe the exclude list isn't being
> honored at all and it isn't a GCC 7.1 issue.
> 

I simple way to check is to locally revert the change and see if that
fixes the problem.

> I spot checked simsh4 and one of the link failures is a test which is
> supposed
> to be excluded. Without checking, I know that moxieseim excludes the dl
> tests.
> So I think that confirms that we have a build system issue and not
> likely any gcc 7.1 issues.

Yes it would seem so.

I will take a look.

Chris