Re: build bot failure

Sergio Durigan Junior <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday, June 22 2016, Jim Wilson wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:27 AM, David Edelsohn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The problem is the debug stabstring for bfd_reloc_code_real_names now
>> overflows the maximum length.  Your patch overflowed the limit.
>>
>> More recent releases of GCC for AIX added support for stab
>> continuation strings, but not the release installed on the machine
>> running the buildbot.
>
> I finally got my compile farm account over the weekend, and have
> confirmed what David Edelsohn already said.  bimutils/gdb will build
> without debug info, but with debug info the build fails because of a
> bug in the gcc-4.8.1 release in /opt/freeware/bin.  This bug is fixed
> in gcc-5.x.

Thanks for looking into this, Jim.

> Since there is no problem with my patch, and since I don't have any
> business or personal interest in AIX, I'm not planning to look into
> this any further.

Right.  This goes in the same direction as I am heading: reduce the
noise caused by some targets on our BuildBot.

Cheers,

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