Hi,

On 29/01/17 at 11:06 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: tags 844146 + buster
> Control: tags 844146 - stretch
> 
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 at 21:08:02 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > This failure happens on a CPU with TSX extensions available, but is not
> > reproducible on a machine without them.
> 
> If my understanding of TSX (as discussed with the Cambridge BSP) is
> correct, this is not release-critical for stretch, because glibc/2.24-9
> has disabled lock elision and is meant to migrate to stretch soon. It is
> likely to be release-critical for buster (assuming the glibc maintainers
> want to re-enable that feature as hardware supporting it becomes more
> common) so I'm tagging it buster,sid with release team approval (jmw).
> 
> Lucas, would it be possible for you to retry your test-build of
> libmicrohttpd on a TSX machine, and perhaps also the other packages that
> had failures on TSX machines that were not reproducible without TSX?
> You will need to either do the build in sid, or wait for glibc (>= 2.24-9)
> to hit stretch.

In my latest archive rebuild, libmicrohttpd 0.9.51-1 built fine on a
TSX-enabled machine with libc6_2.24-9. So yes, this is "fixed" in sid.

Lucas

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