Re: [Valgrind-developers] [valgrind] regtest: turn off exec stack warning

[Philippe W. <phi...@sk...>]

On Sun, 2024-12-22 at 21:46 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:29:34PM +0100, Philippe Waroquiers via Valgrind-developers wrote:
> > The below change causes a build failure on the gcc110 compile farm
> > 
> > valgrind revision: valgrind-3.25.0.GIT-544d41e525-20241221
> > C compiler:        gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
> > GDB:               GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-120.el7
> > Assembler:         GNU assembler version 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1
> > C library:         GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.17
> > uname -mrs:        Linux 3.10.0-1160.105.1.el7.ppc64 ppc64
> > Vendor version:    CentOS Linux 7 (AltArch)
> > [...]
> > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-execstack'
> 
> I saw Paul already added a configure check to see if the linker
> supports --no-warn-execstack. Thanks Paul.
> 
> But this is a really old system. Do we really want to keep supporting
> gcc 4.8 and binutils 2.27? Both are 9 years old. CentOS7 and CentOS8
> stopped doing updates earlier this year.


It would seem reasonable to upgrade gcc110 but I do not know 
what is the upgrade policy of the compile farm.

If we stop testing on gcc110, do we have another powerpc where to do the nightly builds ?

Thanks
Philippe