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Andreas K. Hüttel
92eb4a10ae
install.texi: bump "latest verified" versions
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
2024-07-21 00:27:35 +02:00
H.J. Lu
ba144c179e Add --disable-static-c++-tests option [BZ #31797]
By default, if the C++ toolchain lacks support for static linking,
configure fails to find the C++ header files and the glibc build fails.
The --disable-static-c++-link-check option allows the glibc build to
finish, but static C++ tests will fail if the C++ toolchain doesn't
have the necessary static C++ libraries which may not be easily installed.
Add --disable-static-c++-tests option to skip the static C++ link check
and tests.  This fixes BZ #31797.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
2024-07-02 00:51:34 -07:00
H.J. Lu
23f12e6e0c Add --disable-static-c++-link-check option [BZ #31412]
The current minimum GCC version of glibc build is GCC 6.2 or newer. But
building i686 glibc with GCC 6.4 on Fedora 40 failed since the C++ header
files couldn't be found which was caused by the static C++ link check
failure due to missing __divmoddi4 which was referenced in i686 libc.a
and added to GCC 7.  Add --disable-static-c++-link-check configure option
to disable the static C++ link test.  The newly built i686 libc.a can be
used by GCC 6.4 to create static C++ tests.  This fixes BZ #31412.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
2024-07-02 00:51:34 -07:00
Andreas K. Hüttel
17a293c5fa
INSTALL: regenerate
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
2024-06-25 09:05:20 +02:00
Andreas K. Hüttel
98ffc1bfeb
Convert to autoconf 2.72 (vanilla release, no distribution patches)
As discussed at the patch review meeting

Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Chopin <simon.chopin@canonical.com>
2024-06-17 21:15:28 +02:00
Paul Eggert
6059938728 INSTALL: regenerate 2024-06-15 10:32:34 -07:00
Mark Wielaard
ebfd73a80f Make sure INSTALL is ASCII plaintext again
This reverts commit 84e93afc7 ("Switch to UTF-8 for INSTALL") and
reinstates commit c14f2e4aa ("Make sure INSTALL is ASCII plaintext")
and regenerates INSTALL.

It turns out that different versions of makeinfo (texinfo/texi2any),
at least versions 7.0.3 and 7.1, put unicode quote glyphs in different
places (specifically whether contractions like you'd, don't, aren't or
you'll use ’ or '). This breaks the make dist target as used for
(snapshot) releases, which have a check on the regenerated INSTALL
file. Using --disable-encoding generates the same plaintext ASCII on
all versions.

An alternative would be to regenerate INSTALL with texinfo 7.1 and
require at least that version. But that seems too soon while various
distros don't have 7.1 yet. We can try again to use UTF-8 for INSTALL
in a couple of years.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2024-04-30 09:54:07 +02:00
Andreas K. Hüttel
068b04eaed
INSTALL, install.texi: minor updates, regenerate
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
2024-01-31 00:13:43 +01:00
Adhemerval Zanella
a0cfc48e8a i386: Fail if configured with --enable-cet
Since it is only supported for x86_64.

Checked on i686-linux-gnu.
2024-01-09 13:55:51 -03:00
Mark Wielaard
3265f93436 INSTALL: regenerate 2024-01-09 14:54:30 +01:00
Adhemerval Zanella
460860f457 Remove ia64-linux-gnu
Linux 6.7 removed ia64 from the official tree [1], following the general
principle that a glibc port needs upstream support for the architecture
in all the components it depends on (binutils, GCC, and the Linux
kernel).

Apart from the removal of sysdeps/ia64 and sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64,
there are updates to various comments referencing ia64 for which removal
of those references seemed appropriate. The configuration is removed
from README and build-many-glibcs.py.

The CONTRIBUTED-BY, elf/elf.h, manual/contrib.texi (the porting
mention), *.po files, config.guess, and longlong.h are not changed.

For Linux it allows cleanup some clone2 support on multiple files.

The following bug can be closed as WONTFIX: BZ 22634 [2], BZ 14250 [3],
BZ 21634 [4], BZ 10163 [5], BZ 16401 [6], and BZ 11585 [7].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43ff221426d33db909f7159fdf620c3b052e2d1c
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22634
[3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14250
[4] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21634
[5] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10163
[6] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16401
[7] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11585
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2024-01-08 17:09:36 -03:00
H.J. Lu
bbfb54930c i386: Ignore --enable-cet
Since shadow stack is only supported for x86-64, ignore --enable-cet for
i386.  Always setting $(enable-cet) for i386 to "no" to support

ifneq ($(enable-cet),no)

in x86 Makefiles.  We can't use

ifeq ($(enable-cet),yes)

since $(enable-cet) can be "yes", "no" or "permissive".
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2024-01-04 06:08:55 -08:00
Adhemerval Zanella
e6e3c66688 crypt: Remove libcrypt support
All the crypt related functions, cryptographic algorithms, and
make requirements are removed,  with only the exception of md5
implementation which is moved to locale folder since it is
required by localedef for integrity protection (libc's
locale-reading code does not check these, but localedef does
generate them).

Besides thec code itself, both internal documentation and the
manual is also adjusted.  This allows to remove both --enable-crypt
and --enable-nss-crypt configure options.

Checked with a build for all affected ABIs.

Co-authored-by: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2023-10-30 13:03:59 -03:00
Florian Weimer
3d9265467e elf: Check that --list-diagnostics output has the expected syntax
Parts of elf/tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.py have been copied from
scripts/tst-ld-trace.py.

The abnf module is entirely optional and used to verify the
ABNF grammar as included in the manual.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2023-08-25 14:19:16 +02:00
Andreas K. Hüttel
d09871da52
INSTALL: regenerate
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
2023-07-30 21:16:02 +02:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
6c85c5a177
configure: Disable building libcrypt by default
We mentioned eventual dropping of libcrypt in the 2.28 NEWS.  Actually
put that plan in motion by first disabling building libcrypt by default.
note in NEWS that the library will be dropped completely in a future
release.

Also add a couple of builds into build-many-glibcs.py.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
2023-07-20 20:38:13 +02:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
c6cb8783b5 configure: Use autoconf 2.71
Bump autoconf requirement to 2.71 to allow regenerating configure on
more recent distributions.  autoconf 2.71 has been in Fedora since F36
and is the current version in Debian stable (bookworm).  It appears to
be current in Gentoo as well.

All sysdeps configure and preconfigure scripts have also been
regenerated; all changes are trivial transformations that do not affect
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2023-07-17 10:08:10 -04:00
Frédéric Bérat
64d9580cdf Allow glibc to be built with _FORTIFY_SOURCE
Add --enable-fortify-source option.

It is now possible to enable fortification through a configure option.
The level may be given as parameter, if none is provided, the configure
script will determine what is the highest level possible that can be set
considering GCC built-ins availability and set it.
If level is explicitly set to 3, configure checks if the compiler
supports the built-in function necessary for it or raise an error if it
isn't.

If the configure option isn't explicitly enabled, it _FORTIFY_SOURCE is
forcibly undefined (and therefore disabled).

The result of the configure checks are new variables, ${fortify_source}
and ${no_fortify_source} that can be used to appropriately populate
CFLAGS.

A dedicated patch will follow to make use of this variable in Makefiles
when necessary.

Updated NEWS and INSTALL.

Adding dedicated x86_64 variant that enables the configuration.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-07-05 16:59:34 +02:00
Paul Eggert
84e93afc73 Switch to UTF-8 for INSTALL
This makes it slightly easier to read, and these days
everybody can read UTF-8.
2023-06-29 14:08:39 -04:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
c14f2e4aaa Make sure INSTALL is ASCII plaintext
Add --disable-encoding to makeinfo flags so that it does not generate
unicode quote glyphs.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-06-29 11:07:52 -04:00
Paul Pluzhnikov
7f0d9e61f4 Fix all the remaining misspellings -- BZ 25337 2023-06-02 01:39:48 +00:00
Joe Ramsay
cd94326a13 Enable libmvec support for AArch64
This patch enables libmvec on AArch64. The proposed change is mainly
implementing build infrastructure to add the new routines to ABI,
tests and benchmarks. I have demonstrated how this all fits together
by adding implementations for vector cos, in both single and double
precision, targeting both Advanced SIMD and SVE.

The implementations of the routines themselves are just loops over the
scalar routine from libm for now, as we are more concerned with
getting the plumbing right at this point. We plan to contribute vector
routines from the Arm Optimized Routines repo that are compliant with
requirements described in the libmvec wiki.

Building libmvec requires minimum GCC 10 for SVE ACLE. To avoid raising
the minimum GCC by such a big jump, we allow users to disable libmvec
if their compiler is too old.

Note that at this point users have to manually call the vector math
functions. This seems to be acceptable to some downstream users.

Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
2023-05-03 12:09:49 +01:00
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
33237fe83d Remove --enable-tunables configure option
And make always supported.  The configure option was added on glibc 2.25
and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and
lock elisition tuning).  It also simplifies the build permutations.

Changes from v1:
 * Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs
   more discussion.
 * Cleanup more code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-03-29 14:33:06 -03:00
Adhemerval Zanella
6384171fa0 Remove --disable-experimental-malloc option
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years,
By using it multiple malloc tests fails:

  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck
  FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2023-03-29 14:33:06 -03:00
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
91fc5b9990 Remove --with-default-link configure option
Now that there is no need to use a special linker script to hardening
internal data structures, remove the --with-default-link configure
option and associated definitions.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2023-03-27 13:57:55 -03:00
Carlos O'Donell
5199024232 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2023-01-31 17:51:40 -05:00
Florian Weimer
89baed0b93 Revert "Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup"
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102.

Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking
of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works
again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file
is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init
suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore.

While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require
rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen
working), it is too drastic for stable release branches.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-08-25 18:46:43 +02:00
Florian Weimer
6f85dbf102 Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection.  The
fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id
configure argument.

_dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init.
The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's
__libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the
ld.so namespace structure.  This function pointer can then be called
directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed.

The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data
structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init
is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information
becomes available.  (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up
in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.)
This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from
dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including
the initial executable loaded by the kernel.  The lookup still happens
before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC
resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch.

The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because
so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation
(only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers).

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-08-24 17:35:57 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
7a52dfab02 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2022-07-29 17:51:16 -04:00
Florian Weimer
c935789bdf INSTALL: Rephrase -with-default-link documentation
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-04-26 14:22:23 +02:00
Florian Weimer
198abcbb94 Default to --with-default-link=no (bug 25812)
This is necessary to place the libio vtables into the RELRO segment.
New tests elf/tst-relro-ldso and elf/tst-relro-libc are added to
verify that this is what actually happens.

The new tests fail on ia64 due to lack of (default) RELRO support
inbutils, so they are XFAILed there.
2022-04-22 10:59:03 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
6415fd2ddc Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2022-02-03 00:06:38 -05:00
Florian Weimer
9ba202c78f Add --with-rtld-early-cflags configure option
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-01-14 20:17:15 +01:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
23645707f1 Replace --enable-static-pie with --disable-default-pie
Build glibc programs and tests as PIE by default and enable static-pie
automatically if the architecture and toolchain supports it.

Also add a new configuration option --disable-default-pie to prevent
building programs as PIE.

Only the following architectures now have PIE disabled by default
because they do not work at the moment.  hppa, ia64, alpha and csky
don't work because the linker is unable to handle a pcrel relocation
generated from PIE objects.  The microblaze compiler is currently
failing with an ICE.  GNU hurd tries to enable static-pie, which does
not work and hence fails.  All these targets have default PIE disabled
at the moment and I have left it to the target maintainers to enable PIE
on their targets.

build-many-glibcs runs clean for all targets.  I also tested x86_64 on
Fedora and Ubuntu, to verify that the default build as well as
--disable-default-pie work as expected with both system toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-12-13 08:08:59 +05:30
H.J. Lu
bada2e312a Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to specify TIMEOUTFACTOR
On Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptops, some test programs timeout when there
are 3 "make check -j8" runs in parallel.  Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to
specify an integer to scale the timeout of test programs, which can be
overriden by TIMEOUTFACTOR environment variable.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2021-12-04 12:58:28 -08:00
Carlos O'Donell
06eae99ab4 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2021-08-01 16:48:43 -04:00
Matheus Castanho
ebae2f5a6f Add build option to disable usage of scv on powerpc
Commit 68ab82f566 added support for the scv
syscall ABI on powerpc.  Since then systems that have kernel and processor
support started using scv.  However adding the proper support for a new syscall
ABI requires changes to several other projects (e.g. qemu, valgrind, strace,
kernel), which are gradually receiving support.

Meanwhile, having a way to disable scv on glibc at build time can be useful for
distros that may encounter conflicts with projects that still do not support the
scv ABI, buying time until proper support is added.

This commit adds a --disable-scv option that disables scv support and uses sc
for all syscalls, like before commit 68ab82f566.

Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-10 16:23:25 -03:00
Naohiro Tamura
3856056358 aarch64: Added Vector Length Set test helper script
This patch is a test helper script to change Vector Length for child
process. This script can be used as test-wrapper for 'make check'.

Usage examples:

~/build$ make check subdirs=string \
test-wrapper='~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16'

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16 \
make test t=string/test-memcpy

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 32 \
./debugglibc.sh string/test-memmove

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 64 \
./testrun.sh string/test-memset
2021-05-26 12:01:06 +01:00
Lukasz Majewski
496e36f225 tst: Extend cross-test-ssh.sh to specify if target date can be altered
This code adds new flag - '--allow-time-setting' to cross-test-ssh.sh
script to indicate if it is allowed to alter the date on the system
on which tests are executed. This change is supposed to be used with
test systems, which use virtual machines for testing.

The GLIBC_TEST_ALLOW_TIME_SETTING env variable is exported to the
remote environment on which the eligible test is run and brings no
functional change when it is not.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-03-08 22:37:16 +01:00
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
ad47748992 Update INSTALL with package versions that are known to work
Most packages have been tested with their latest releases, except for
Python, whose latest version is 3.9.1.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-01-25 13:13:17 -03:00
Richard Earnshaw
3378408987 config: Allow memory tagging to be enabled when configuring glibc
This patch adds the configuration machinery to allow memory tagging to be
enabled from the command line via the configure option --enable-memory-tagging.

The current default is off, though in time we may change that once the API
is more stable.
2020-12-21 15:25:25 +00:00
Stefan Liebler
844b4d8b4b s390x: Require GCC 7.1 or later to build glibc.
GCC 6.5 fails to correctly build ldconfig with recent ld.so.cache
commits, e.g.:
785969a047
elf: Implement a string table for ldconfig, with tail merging

If glibc is build with gcc 6.5.0:
__builtin_add_overflow is used in
<glibc>/elf/stringtable.c:stringtable_finalize()
which leads to ldconfig failing with "String table is too large".
This is also recognizable in following tests:
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-prepend-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-X
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-bad-aux-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-ld_so_conf-update
FAIL: elf/tst-stringtable

See gcc "Bug 98269 - gcc 6.5.0 __builtin_add_overflow() with small
uint32_t values incorrectly detects overflow"
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98269)
2020-12-17 16:18:04 +01:00
Florian Weimer
27fe5f2e67 Linux: Require properly configured /dev/pts for PTYs
Current systems do not have BSD terminals, so the fallback code in
posix_openpt/getpt does not do anything.  Also remove the file system
check for /dev/pts.  Current systems always have a devpts file system
mounted there if /dev/ptmx exists.

grantpt is now essentially a no-op.  It only verifies that the
argument is a ptmx-descriptor.  Therefore, this change indirectly
addresses bug 24941.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2020-10-07 14:55:50 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
ba0ec34c62 Regenerate INSTALL for ARC port updates. 2020-07-22 23:32:07 -04:00
Petr Vorel
ae7a94e5e3 Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flag
this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for
backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus
are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed.

This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have
been added in or before version 2.28.

Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>.

This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended
on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.

libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed
libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in
the following commit.
2020-07-08 17:25:57 +02:00
H.J. Lu
9e38f455a6 x86: Add --enable-cet=permissive
When CET is enabled, it is an error to dlopen a non CET enabled shared
library in CET enabled application.  It may be desirable to make CET
permissive, that is disable CET when dlopening a non CET enabled shared
library.  With the new --enable-cet=permissive configure option, CET is
disabled when dlopening a non CET enabled shared library.

Add DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL to config.h.in:

 /* The default value of x86 CET control.  */
 #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_elf_property

which enables CET features based on ELF property note.

--enable-cet=permissive it to

 /* The default value of x86 CET control.  */
 #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_permissive

which enables CET features permissively.

Update tst-cet-legacy-5a, tst-cet-legacy-5b, tst-cet-legacy-6a and
tst-cet-legacy-6b to check --enable-cet and --enable-cet=permissive.
2020-05-18 08:38:53 -07:00
Paul E. Murphy
5c7ccc2983 powerpc64le: blacklist broken GCC compilers (e.g GCC 7.5.0)
GCC 7.5.0 (PR94200) will refuse to compile if both -mabi=% and
-mlong-double-128 are passed on the command line.  Surprisingly,
it will work happily if the latter is not.  For the sake of
maintaining status quo, test for and blacklist such compilers.

Tested with a GCC 8.3.1 and GCC 7.5.0 compiler for ppc64le.

Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Paul E. Murphy
3a0acbdcc5 powerpc64le: bump binutils version requirement to >= 2.26
This is a small step up from 2.25 which brings in support for
rewriting the .gnu.attributes section of libc/libm.so.

Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Paul E. Murphy
50545f5aa0 powerpc64le: raise GCC requirement to 7.4 for long double transition
Add compiler feature tests to ensure we can build ieee128 long double.
These test for -mabi=ieeelongdouble, -mno-gnu-attribute, and -Wno-psabi.

Likewise, verify some compiler bugs have been addressed.  These aren't
helpful for building glibc, but may cause test failures when testing
the new long double.  See notes below from Raji.

On powerpc64le, some older compiler versions give error for the function
signbit() for 128-bit floating point types.  This is fixed by PR83862
in gcc 8.0 and backported to gcc6 and gcc7.  This patch adds a test
to check compiler version to avoid compiler errors during make check.

Likewise, test for -mno-gnu-attribute support which was

On powerpc64le, a few files are built on IEEE long double mode
(-mabi=ieeelongdouble), whereas most are built on IBM long double mode
(-mabi=ibmlongdouble, the default for -mlong-double-128).  Since binutils
2.31, linking object files with different long double modes causes
errors similar to:

  ld: libc_pic.a(s_isinfl.os) uses IBM long double,
      libc_pic.a(ieee128-qefgcvt.os) uses IEEE long double.
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [../Makerules:649: libc_pic.os] Error 1

The warnings are fair and correct, but in order for glibc to have
support for both long double modes on powerpc64le, they have to be
ignored.  This can be accomplished with the use of -mno-gnu-attribute
option when building the few files that require IEEE long double mode.

However, -mno-gnu-attribute is not available in GCC 6, the minimum
version required to build glibc, so this patch adds a test for this
feature in powerpc64le builds, and fails early if it's not available.

Co-Authored-By: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabrielftg@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
df5919dfeb Update newest tested versions of dependencies in install.texi
Updated versions of gcc, binutils, awk, bison and perl.
2020-02-01 17:16:54 +05:30