[OE-core] [PATCH] ltp: update to 20140828 release

[Fathi Boudra]

On 31 October 2014 12:58, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 09:44 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 29 October 2014 08:38, Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra at linaro.org>
> > wrote:
> >         bump SRCREV to 20140828 tag
> >         drop automake-foreign patch - fixed upstream (commit 18594de
> >         and edbae29)
> >         update realtime tests fixes upstream status from submitted to
> >         backported - merged upstream
> >
> > This doesn't build on the autobuilders, see for
> > example
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/minnow/builds/84/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio
> >
> > There are hundreds of compiler warnings, and a missing header.
>
> Now, since I've heard complaints that we don't merge patches quickly, I
> want to highlight what this means.
>

I'm one them and I guess it's the stick I asked for, for complaining ;)


>
> We tried this patch, we found it had issues, therefore whenever we see
> similar patches from similar authors, we now have a nagging doubt about
> how much testing they've had.


fwiw, it has been built and tested on armv7 and armv8 architectures, both
successfully.
Now I'm lokking why this issue is triggered on x86:

/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/minnow/build/build/tmp/sysroots/minnow/usr/include/tirpc/rpc/rpc.h:74:61:
fatal error: rpc/rpcb_clnt.h: No such file or directory



> This means we when we aggregate those
> patches there is more risk to the build, we need a clean build before we
> merge patches so it can delay other people's patches. This is a bit of a
> vicious circle and its why you see some of the behaviour we get
> complaints about.
>
> So I'd remind people that if they send things which don't work, it does
> have an impact. There is also something you can do to influence this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
br,

Fathi
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