On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 01:24 +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when building Debian ltp package on alpha, the package failed to build,  
> because alpha lacks some of the syscalls (the xxx_16 ones). See
> 
> http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=ltp&ver=20081031%2Bdfsg-1&arch=alpha&stamp=1225968365&file=log&as=raw
> 
> I have created some patches, which fix this behaviour (ie. the build  
> doesn't fail then). They work like this:
> 
>   1. Syscalls which are potentially missing on some architectures are  
> listed in the stub-list
> 
>   2. If a syscall(x) is called and x is 0 (a value of undefined stub  
> syscalls), the test is aborted by tst_brk(). This is accomplished by a  
> macro wrapper over the syscall() function (this almost eliminates the need  
> of changing the tests in question, and allows the compiler to eliminate  
> parts of tests of nonexistent syscalls as dead code).
> 
> The attached patches implement this. Some remarks:
> 
>   - the syscalls added to the stub list are the ones which appear in the  
> kernel sources as __IGNORE_name-of-syscall
> 
>   - the macro is for gcc only. The test using this mechanism (ie.  
> #including linux_syscall_numbers.h and calling syscall()) must define  
> static function void cleanup(void) to be called when the syscall is  
> missing (the patch also handles this for tests that lack it).
> 
> Regards
>     Jiri Palecek

Thanks.

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