David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>>
>> I have started seeing consistent test failures with rc2 on ppc64 and
>> ppc64le:
>> - on both platforms "get total messages with closed database" from
>>   T568-lib-thread fails
>
> I don't see this failure on ppc64el on Debian [0]. Perhaps there is some
> toolchain difference?

This specific issue has now disappeared on both ppc64 and ppc64el, so I
guess it was just some toolchain breakage that got fixed in the meantime.

>
>> - on ppc64 "comparing existing to exported symbols" from
>>   T360-symbol-hiding fails as well
>
> This is more-or-less known [1]. The problem is that ppc64 reports
> defined functions as 'D' in nm output. At least on ELF architectures,
> readelf -Ws is more reliable. How many people would using readelf break
> things for? Currently the test does not run on macOS, afaik.

So it is ok if I just skip this test on ppc64? Or can anything be done
about this (I must admit that I have relatively little insight into
this)?


Cheers,

Dan