Unable to build due to failing nptl tests

Asked by Anthony O.

I am attempting to build the glibc packages from source. The commands used to fetch the source package and build it are as follows:

apt-get build-dep glibc
apt-get source glibc
cd glibc-2.27/
debuild -us -uc 1>../stdout.txt 2>../stderr.txt

I initially tried to build the package on my Ubuntu 18.04 workstation, which had the gdb and python-pexpect packages installed and the following tests failed:

FAIL: nptl/test-condattr-printers
FAIL: nptl/test-cond-printers
FAIL: nptl/test-mutexattr-printers
FAIL: nptl/test-mutex-printers
FAIL: nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers
FAIL: nptl/test-rwlock-printers

Some research showed that these tests require the gdb and python-pexpect (or python3-pexpect) packages to be installed in order to run. Since these packages are not included in the list of build dependencies, I created a virtual machine with a minimal Ubuntu 18.04 install and ran the same build commands. This time around, those tests were all marked as "UNSUPPORTED":

UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-cond-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-condattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutex-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutexattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlock-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers

Interestingly, there were also a few tests that were marked as "UNSUPPORTED" in both cases, which seems to be due to the hardware I'm building on and not any missing package:

UNSUPPORTED: elf/tst-audit10
UNSUPPORTED: elf/tst-avx512
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-alias-avx512-main
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-double-libmvec-sincos-avx512
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-float-libmvec-alias-avx512
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-float-libmvec-alias-avx512-main
UNSUPPORTED: math/test-float-libmvec-sincosf-avx512
UNSUPPORTED: misc/tst-pkey

The question here is whether or not this behavior is expected. If this package is built upstream in a chroot environment with something like pbuilder, I would imagine that the gdb and python-pexpect (or python3-pexpect) packages would not be installed in this environment and that the tests would be skipped. Are these tests being skipped upstream, or does their failure on my workstation indicate a deeper issue?

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#1

A snippet from the buildlog of the amd64 version in Ubuntu bionic
https://launchpad.net/~adconrad/+archive/ubuntu/staging/+build/14768180
...
UNSUPPORTED: io/tst-getcwd-abspath
UNSUPPORTED: misc/tst-pkey
UNSUPPORTED: misc/tst-ttyname
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-cond-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-condattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutex-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-mutexattr-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlock-printers
UNSUPPORTED: nptl/test-rwlockattr-printers
...
UNSUPPORTED: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-erange
UNSUPPORTED: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi
UNSUPPORTED: posix/tst-sysconf-empty-chroot
...
UNSUPPORTED: resolv/tst-resolv-res_init
UNSUPPORTED: resolv/tst-resolv-res_init-thread
UNSUPPORTED: resolv/tst-resolv-threads
...
UNSUPPORTED: sunrpc/tst-svc_register
Summary of test results:
   5631 PASS
     16 UNSUPPORTED
     16 XFAIL
     11 XPASS
...

So it seems that this is not an issue of your system, but a general matter.

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Anthony O. (anthonyo) said :
#2

Thanks for the quick response.

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Anthony O. (anthonyo) said :
#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.