On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:18:11PM -0400, Richard wrote: > On 03/25/2017 01:53 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Richard wrote: > > > In the LFS-7.10 book the following note > > > related to the gcc testsuite is included: > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > On some systems, numerous test failures > > > (over 1100 unexpected failures out of > > > over 200,000 tests) have been reported. > > > These failures in gcc.target/i386/mpx/ > > > are related to the Intel MPX (Memory > > > Protection Extensions) tests and failures > > > are due to the kernel configuration or > > > the specific CPU architecture. These test > > > failures are harmless and can be ignored. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- [...] > > Interesting. I mentioned this in September for 7.10 after noticing > > it on one old AMD machine. I now recall that one reason for such > > failures was using a kernel which does not support 32-bit emulation, > > i.e. CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION. > > [...] > I am getting these failures on a 32-bit Intel P4 machine. > I don't see the CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION option > anywhere in my .config file. > > Richard CONFIG_IA_32_EMULATION is for 64-bit, on a 32-bit kernel you only configure for IA32. Interesting that these tests on a P4 also fail.
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