From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Vorel Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:56:15 +0100 Subject: [LTP] uclinux support? In-Reply-To: <20181112142240.GA10234@rei.lan> References: <20181112110151.GA23335@rei.lan> <20181112142240.GA10234@rei.lan> Message-ID: <20181113085615.GD7182@dell5510> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi, > > > uClinux support in LTP has been broken for years and nobody seemed to > > > really care. I even tried to ask if there is someone interesting in > > > running LTP on uClinux on the uClinux mailing list but it seems that > > > even the list is basically dead at this point. So for a last year or so > > > we are slowly getting rid of the uClinux specific bits from the codebase > > > in order to simplify the LTP maintenance. You are free to step up and > > > restore uClinux support in LTP if you have time for that but unless that > > > happens we will continue to stage it out. > > OK understood, I was right to ask :) > > I'd like to roll back to a point where it was mostly working, any idea > > when that would be? > > I've looked at the history, and tried several commits that seemed to > > remove uclinux support, > > but I'm still facing similar errors (I'm now back to 2011....) > Actually I have no idea. But generally the further back you go the more > unstable the whole LTP gets. I'm pretty sure you will not be able to > even compile 10 years old LTP regardless the uClinux enabled or not. > Looking at the commit logs it looks like last time anything has been > fixed for uClinux was 2009. > > A point were a subset worked would be nice, I'd like to run tests > > involving unwinding and signals. > You may be better off taking an LTP from 2016 before we added the new > LTP test library which is about the time we started to remove uClinux > support, i.e. before commit: > commit bbdb9f78378c7e038f463efa39d2470e1c51ad54 > Author: Cyril Hrubis > Date: Wed Mar 16 15:53:57 2016 +0100 > lib: Add new test library API > And disable tests until it compiles. FYI LTP compiles under uclibc-ng. Buildroot distribution (which uses glibc, uclibc-ng and musl) disabled it just for musl [1]. It's tested with their autobuild service [2] and currently no build reports are for latest release [3]. IMHO it shouldn't be difficult to support musl as well. [1] https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/tree/package/ltp-testsuite/Config.in [2] https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_analyzing_and_fixing_autobuild_failures [3] http://autobuild.buildroot.net/stats/