Added some notes regarding failed tests

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Jeremy Utley 2003-09-09 20:59:10 +00:00
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<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed
tests to glibc and dejagnu.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for checks.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed zlib's

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make install</userinput></screen></para>
<para>This completes the testing tools. We can now rebuild GCC and Binutils
to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly.</para>
to link them against the new Glibc, and test them properly. One thing to note,
however, is that these test suites are highly dependent on the features
supported by your host distribution. Most notably, a host distribution which
does not properly support the devpts filesystem will cause most of these tests
to fail.</para>
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make check
make install</userinput></screen></para>
<para>The glibc make check process is highly dependent on certain functions
of your host operating system. The most common is a host that fails to mount
a tmpfs filesystem at /dev/shm, which may cause glibc tests to fail.</para>
<para>The locales (used by Glibc to make your Linux system respond in a
different language) weren't installed when you ran the previous command,
so we have to do that ourselves now:</para>