> On Sep 18, 2019, at 07:33, Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Sep 18, 2019, at 05:40, Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 7:34 AM Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 17, 2019, at 18:58, Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Author: kevans
>>>> Date: Wed Sep 18 01:58:56 2019
>>>> New Revision: 352465
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352465
>>>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>> googletest: default-disable on all of MIPS for now
>>>> 
>>>> Parts of the fusefs tests trigger a bug in current versions of llvm: IR
>>>> representation of some routine for the MIPS targets is a function with a
>>>> large number of arguments. This then leads the compiler on an hour+ long
>>>> goose chase, which is OK if you build the current tree but less-so if 
>>>> you're
>>>> trying external toolchain or doing a universe build involving mips when it
>>>> eventually gets switched over to LLVM.
>>>> 
>>>> Better, accurate details can be found in LLVM PR43263.
>>> 
>>> Uhhhhh... why not do this in tests/sys/... instead?
>> 
>> Because there's still value in being able to easily enable these for
>> building/running the complete set of tests through standard build
>> infrastructure, but it's not worth adding a knob specifically for the
>> fusefs tests. I also prefer the communication of it being an
>> off-by-default option and easily deduced from src.conf(5) that this
>> part of the build is default-disabled on mips/mips.
> 
> Let me rephrase things a bit: is googlemock broken for all of mips, or is it 
> just the tests? If the latter, the tests should be blacklisted for mips with 
> a justification. If the former, I agree your method of dealing with the 
> situation is ok, but more investigation needs to be done to see whether or 
> not the port (in general) is broken and mark it broken if need be.

It looks like the latter case, based on the PR, and it’s a build performance 
issue... Is this impacting CI pipelines?

> The problem with src.opts.mk’s per-architecture options, is that it can be 
> very heavy handed enabling/disabling features. I’m not sure that everything 
> in there warrants disabling at that level.

My investigation suggests that the course of action was overly heavy handed. 
While I’m not asking for a revert, it would be really nice if whole features 
weren’t disabled, unless there’s an issue with the feature.

Thank you,
-Enji
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