[Release-testers] [3.8 Release] RC2 has been tagged

[Daniel Sanders via Release-testers]

Here's a quick update
> clang+llvm-3.8.0-rc2-x86_64-linux-gnu-debian8.tar.xz (sha1sum:
> 2b546efa5bab19d6711771ef31711d07b4a3f23f)
> 	Native:
> 		All ok
> 	Cross compiling to various MIPS targets:
> 		16 out of 23 configs passed
> 		1 out of the remaining 7 failed a small number of tests with a
> timeout. I expect these will pass when I re-run them.
> 		Remaining 6 configs still running...

For cross-compilation, it's now 22 out of 23 passing. The remaining config had fewer timeouts on the re-run but not all of them went away. I'm re-running the last two timeouts while my machine is less busy.
 
> clang+llvm-3.8.0-rc2-mips-linux-gnu.tar.xz (sha1sum:
> b46221e1bb54255e9e060f06bb72bb2ba630ff15)
> 	Failed to run check-all due to tsan'd libc++ build failing
> 		PR26278 - My fix for this was committed just after the rc2 tag
> so in order to get some check-all results, I applied those four patches
> (r25966[1456]) and re-ran check-all.
> 		PR26369 - Several failures related to the lack of -latomic
> which is needed for 64-bit atomics.
> 		PR26476 - One new failure in libc++ (I probably just missed it
> amongst the others). Apparently std::regex_traits says that '-' doesn't belong
> to the 'w' class but only on big-endian.
> 		check-all appears to hang at 99%. I'll look into this.
> 	LNT (using the clean rc2)
> 		1 of 3 passed successfully, the other two are still running

LNT finished successfully and everything passed.

I've identified the hanging test. It's a mips64 msan test so I'm planning to mark it UNSUPPORTED (XFAIL will still hang) since this isn't a regression on the last release.

We're still investigating PR26476, and we're also trying to get PR26369 committed+merged.

 > clang+llvm-3.8.0-rc2-mipsel-linux-gnu.tar.xz (sha1sum:
> 9f89cccfdb5cf6a27138b84a631003c4a04f456d)
> 	Build almost ok. I only have failures related to PR26369.
> 	LNT just started.

All ok aside from PR26369.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lldb-dev [mailto:lldb-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Hans
> > Wennborg via lldb-dev
> > Sent: 02 February 2016 21:16
> > To: release-testers at lists.llvm.org
> > Cc: llvm-dev; cfe-dev; openmp-dev (openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org); LLDB
> Dev
> > Subject: [lldb-dev] [3.8 Release] RC2 has been tagged
> >
> > Dear testers,
> >
> > Release Candidate 2 has just been tagged [1]. Please build, test, and
> > upload to the sftp.
> >
> > I know there are still outstanding issues from RC1, but there have
> > been a lot of merges going into the branch and I think it's time for
> > another round of RC testing.
> >
> > This RC comes a little behind schedule, sorry about that, but I'm
> > still optimistic about hitting the target of releasing towards the end
> > of February.
> >
> > Thanks for all the work you've put into this release so far!
> >
> > Hans
> >
> >  [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-branch-commits/2016-
> > February/009739.html
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