Re: [Gm2] Success! Tarball of 9/10/14 with Ubuntu 14.04 on x86 and Raspian Wheezy on ARM (RPi)

[Gaius Mulley]

JD <address@hidden> writes:

> Gaius,
> We have a result! No, two results.

Hi John,

excellent news!

> 1. Ubuntu 14.04 on x86 
>
>     === gm2 Summary ===
>     
>     # of expected passes 9608
>     # of unexpected failures 120
>     # of unresolved testcases 12

super to see the 32 bit failures have reduced

> 2. ARM - Raspberry Pi
>
>     === gm2 Summary ===
>     
>     # of expected passes 6744
>     # of unexpected failures 1513
>     # of unresolved testcases 1495
>     make: [check-gm2] Error 1 (ignored)
> But this one wasn't straightforward. I took up your hint to look at
> the ARM ABI. There are several cases on the web of the parameter
> passing error when calling the VFP unit. Unfortunately, there was no
> consistent solution. So, I tried a few changes to the configure
> options, and after trial and error this worked:
>
>     1. Force the architecture with the following extra options to
>     configure:
>     --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf -
>     -target=arm-linux-gnueabihf 
>     This didn't itself solve the problem but it did force the use of
>     arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc instead of plain gcc.
>     2. The option that made the difference was:
>     --with-float=hard

well done - this is very, very useful!

any chance I could have the gm2.sum file for the html table

regards,
Gaius

> A huge plus was the timing:
>
>     real 1083m45.643s
>     user 661m55.220s
>     sys 48m43.620s
> - only 18 hours.

>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
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