Re: Testresults for binutils 2.14.90 20030608 on i686-linux

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:47:11PM +0200, Christian Joensson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:51:29PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:14:02AM +0200, Christian Joensson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:17:39PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:20:26AM +0200, Christian Joensson wrote:
> > > > > Any ideas on what is wrong here?
> > > > 
> > > > The way you're running the testsuite.  You can't just add -fPIC and
> > > > expect all the tests to pass.
> > > 
> > > well, for the srec tests, I've heard before it's not done using
> > > -fPIC... but for the four others, do you really mean that??
> > > 
> > > this is the contents of the log file for the test suite run *without"
> > > the -fPIC flag set...
> > 
> > Those too are possibly a result of your environment.  The visibility
> > tests require a fairly new version of glibc.  Sorry, I can't advise
> > more speficially as I don't have access to sparc systems.
> 
> uhm, *this* is for i686-linux, Red Hat Linux 9, with glibc-2.3.2-27.9
> 
> I have a few systems I do run tests on though..

By relatively new, I think it means "in the past month or so".  I
believe RH9 was released before it was fixed.

I am really considering XFAILing those tests again for a while.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer