Re: tst-getaddrinfo4 failure with glibc-2.18

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu dot edu>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
> > > I've just built glibc-2.18 on an i686 system with gcc-4.8.1. Under "make
> > > check" I'm getting a failure on tst-getaddrinfo4, and I'm wondering if
> > > that's anything to get excited about.
> > >
> > > The file tst-getaddrinfo4.out reads as follows:
> > >
> > > SUCCESS getaddrinfo(service=NULL, family=0, flags=0): Unknown error: 
> > > Success
> > > SUCCESS getaddrinfo(service=NULL, family=0, flags=32): Unknown error:
> > > Success
> > > SUCCESS getaddrinfo(service=NULL, family=2, flags=0): Unknown error: 
> > > Success
> > > SUCCESS getaddrinfo(service=NULL, family=10, flags=0): Unknown error:
> > > Success
> > > FAIL getaddrinfo(service=http, family=0, flags=0): Servname not supported
> > > for ai_socktype: Success
> > > FAIL getaddrinfo(service=http, family=0, flags=32): Servname not supported
> > > for ai_socktype: Success
> > > FAIL getaddrinfo(service=http, family=2, flags=0): Servname not supported
> > > for ai_socktype: Success
> > > FAIL getaddrinfo(service=http, family=10, flags=0): Servname not supported
> > > for ai_socktype: Success
> >
> > Any failure is something to get excited about. An i686 build should
> > have no failures in the testsuite.
> >
> > You'll have to dig into the test to see exactly what it expects and
> > what is failing.
>
> Can you suggest a place to start digging? I've tried googling the error 
> message + glibc [...]

Sorry, kinda silly question. I've started looking at the code for 
this test (a new one, I see) and trying to understand what it's 
doing.

Allin Cottrell