apparently the gas testsuite was rewritten between .20090622 and 20090704. building with gcc-4.4 makes the gas/arm/arm.exp test fail in the 64 Bytes alignment test. details and a full build log can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398732
this is a patch not yet included in trunk. posted at http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-06/msg00289.html
Sorry, this issue is specific to Ubuntu as we added a patch to change the default alignment to 64 bits. I tried building tip, it builds at least up to gas and passes the gas testsuite; with the patch applied the test suite fails as follows: ... Running target unix Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target. Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target. Using /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/config/default.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file. Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/all/gas.exp ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/alpha/alpha.exp ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/arc/arc.exp ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/arc/warn.exp ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/arm.exp ... FAIL: 64 Bytes alignment test Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/bfin/bfin.exp ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/cfi/cfi.exp ... ... Running /home/lool/scratch/binutils/binutils/gas/testsuite/gas/z8k/z8k.exp ... === gas Summary === # of expected passes 319 # of unexpected failures 1 # of unsupported tests 4 ../as-new 2.19.51.20090703 make[2]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 1
err 64 bytes not bits
closing as invalid