Re: python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I wrote:
>>> Python-3.3.5 fails its test suite on i686.
>>
>> This turns out to be a bug in glibc-2.20.
>> I've filed an upstream ticket here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17398
>
> It turned out to be a GCC 4.8 bug:
>
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61801
>
> So now we have two option:
>
>   1. Patch GCC 4.8.3 in core-updates, and rebuild the whole thing.
>
>   2. Switch to GCC 4.9 as the default.
>
> Option #1 is the safest, I think.
>
> Thoughts?

We've not yet built GCC 4.9.x successfully on mips64el, so that leads me
to prefer option #1.

    Thanks,
      Mark