diff --git a/chapter08/glibc.xml b/chapter08/glibc.xml index e8432fe19..10fccb3a9 100644 --- a/chapter08/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter08/glibc.xml @@ -163,34 +163,34 @@ esac is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment. - - Three nptl/tst-thread-affinity* - tests are known to fail. - - - - - - - The stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread - test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old. - - Some tests, for example - nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi, - are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal - timeout. + nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi and + nptl/tst-thread-affinity* + are known to fail due to a timeout (especially when the system is + relatively slow and/or running the test suite with multiple + parallel make jobs). These tests can be identified with: + + + grep "Timed out" -l $(find -name \*.out) + + It's possible to re-run a single test with enlarged timeout + with + TIMEOUTFACTOR=<factor> + make test t=<test name>. + For example, TIMEOUTFACTOR=10 make test + t=nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi will re-run + nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi with ten times + the original timeout. Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU - model or host kernel version. + model (for example + elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo) or host kernel + version (for example + stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread).