Hi Richard,

> On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 10:35 +0200, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Dear Community,
> >   
> > > This patch introduces new recipe - namely 'glibc-tests', which
> > > builds and installs glibc test suite to OE/Yocto built image.
> > > 
> > > It reuses code from already available 'glibc-testsuite' recipe,
> > > which is run with 'bitbake glibc-testsuite -c check' and uses qemu
> > > to execute remotely (via SSH) tests on some emulated machine.
> > > 
> > > This recipe installs eligible tests on some rootfs image.
> > > Afterwards, either all of them or only time related subset, those
> > > tests can be executed on the real hardware, to facilitate
> > > validation of this platform with for example Y2038 problem
> > > compliance.
> > > 
> > > By default all tests are executed, with 'ptest-runner
> > > glibc-tests'. To test only time related subset - one needs to
> > > call: cd /usr/lib/glibc-tests/ptest/; rm run-ptest; \
> > > ln -s run-ptest-time run-ptest; cd -; ptest-runner glibc-tests
> > > 
> > > To facilitate debugging, source files are provided by default with
> > > the unstripped debugging symbols. Such approach would reduce the
> > > already complex recipe (as it inherits base glibc one), so there
> > > is no need to also install *-dbg and *-src packages.
> > >   
> > 
> > Gentle ping on this patch set.  
> 
> We're in the middle of trying to make a release. This change needs to
> wait until after that. We're starting to work through that backlog
> but easier things will go first.
>

Thanks for the update.
 
> FWIW I'm still very reticent to add in two code paths doing similar
> things so am not entirely sure we will be able to take this :(
> 

As fair as I understand those recipes (glibc related) - there are the
same binaries built once for the target machine.

Then those binaries are either run with QEMU or bundled into separate
package and then installed and run on a _real_ HW.

To even keep things more clear - I can just provide v2 of this patch,
which will only test time related API (as I do know that those
can be executed as standalone binaries) and state that it is meant for
Y2038 compliance testing.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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