A [work in progress] script to fetch, build, and test fresh glibc sources.

glibc-tester.sh

#!/bin/bash

# TODO: Parse and report testsuite failures;
#       fetch and execute gnulib testsuite.

GT_NAME=glibc-tester
GT_DIR=$HOME/.$GT_NAME
GT_CONFIG=$GT_DIR/config

if [ ! -d $GT_DIR ]; then
    mkdir -p $GT_DIR || exit
fi

if [ -f $GT_CONFIG ]; then
    . $GT_CONFIG
else 
    echo "GLIBC_GIT=\"git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git\"" > $GT_CONFIG
    echo "GLIBC_SRC=\"$GT_DIR/glibc\"" >> $GT_CONFIG
    echo "GLIBC_TST=\"$GT_DIR/test\"" >> $GT_CONFIG
    echo "GLIBC_INS=\"$GT_DIR/install\"" >> $GT_CONFIG
    . $GT_CONFIG
fi

echo "Fetching latest glibc sources."
if [ -d $GLIBC_SRC/.git ]; then

    # glibc source was checked out in the past;
    # just pull the latest changes 

    (cd $GLIBC_SRC;
     git pull || exit;
     git --no-pager log -1)

else
    if [ -d $GLIBC_SRC ] && [ -x $GLIBC_SRC/configure ]; then
        echo "Looks like we have an extracted glibc source tarball."
    else
        rm -rf $GLIBC_SRC
        git clone $GLIBC_GIT $GLIBC_SRC

        (cd $GLIBC_SRC;
         git --no-pager log -1)
    fi
fi

mkdir -p $GLIBC_TST && cd $GLIBC_TST || exit

echo "Running 'configure'."
$GLIBC_SRC/configure \
    --prefix=$GLIBC_INS --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests &> /dev/null || exit

echo "Running 'make'."
NCPU=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep '^processor\s\+:' | wc -l)
make -j $NCPU &> /dev/null || exit

echo "Running 'make check'."
make -k check &> make-check.log || echo "'make -k check' failed"