glibc: nptl/tst-cancel17 and librt issue

[Vineet Gupta]

On 11/21/2017 02:03 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 21 2017, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1 at synopsys.com> wrote:
> 
>> make subdirs=nptl check fails as librt.so fails to link due to missing
>> pthread symbols. The real librt built does have libpthread.so in its link
>> cmd hence is fine, but not this librt.
> 
> Don't do that then.  If you want to take shortcuts you need to know what
> you are doing.  Before running make check you should make all to have
> everything up-to-date.

The problem is not specific subdirs=nptl, it happens for vanilla make check too. I 
was just doing subdirs to save time and find/fix all the errors in one go.

Does anyone know how the make build rules are carved up for this specific case ?

-Vineet