Re: How to determine cause of ld testsuite failures?

["David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:29:26PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:53:40PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > Applying rev 1.63 of bfd/elf.c to 2_11 sources did not fix the problem.
> > I'm still seeing output of:
> > 
> > /FBSD/binutils-repo/binutils-2_11-branch/ld/testsuite/ld-undefined/undefined.c(.text+0x7): undefined reference to `this_function_is_not_defined'
> > 
> > Was there more to the patch than just bfd/elf.c?
> > 
> 
> FWIW, that is what I got on Linux/ia64:
> 
> /home/work/build/binutils/ld/ld-new -e start -o tmpdir/undefined tmpdir/undefined.o
> /home/work/build/binutils/ld/ld-new: warning: cannot find entry symbol start; defaulting to 40000000000000f0
> tmpdir/undefined.o: In function `function':
> /work/gnu/src/binutils/ld/testsuite/ld-undefined/undefined.c:9: undefined reference to `this_function_is_not_defined'


Even on the main-trunk I get this output:

/FBSD/binutils-repo/src/ld/testsuite/ld-undefined/undefined.c(.text+0x7): undefined reference to `this_function_is_not_defined'


Any idea what is different in the configuration of the two?

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)