Re: [2.15] Second prerelease available

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Daniel,

> At: ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.14.92.tar.bz2
>  
Could you include an md5sum with future posts ?  I had some problems 
downloading this file due to interrupted connections to my ISP. :-(

Anyway I ran this release through my testsuite.  It checked the 
following architectures/targets, all of which built:

all                        all-64                 alpha-linux-gnu
alpha-unknown-freebsd4.7   alpha-unknown-osf4.0   arc-elf
arm-aout                   arm-epoc-pe            arm-netbsdelf
arm-nto                    arm-vxworks            arm-wince-pe
avr-elf                    cris-elf               d10v-elf
dlx-elf                    fr30-elf               frv-elf
h8300-coff                 h8300-elf              hppa-linux-gnu
i686-pc-cygwin             i686-pc-elf            i686-pc-linux-gnu
i960-coff                  ia64-x-freebsd5        ip2k-elf
iq2000-elf                 m32r-elf               m68hc11-elf
m68k-aout                  m68k-coff              m68k-elf
m68k-rtems                 m68k-uclinux           m88k-coff
mcore-pe                   mingw32-pe             mips-elf
mipsel-linux-gnu           mips64-linux           mmix-elf
mmix-mmixware              mn10300-elf            msp430-elf
ns32k-netbsd               openrisc-elf           or32-coff
or32-elf                   powerpc-eabisim        powerpc-nto
powerpc-wrs-vxworks        rs6000-aix4.3.3        s390-linux
sh-coff                    sh-elf                 sh-hms
sh-linux                   sh-nto                 
shl-unknown-netbsdelf1.6T 
sh64-superh-linux-gnu      sparc-elf              sparc64-linux-gnu
sparc64-netbsd             sparc-linux-gnu        tic54x-coff
v850-elf                   x86_64-linux           xscale-elf
xstormy16-elf              xtensa-elf             z8k-coff

and then I compared the results of running the three testsuites (gas. 
ld, binutils) against the same test runs for today's current sources.  
There were quite a few additional failures for the 2.14.92 sources:

alpha-unknown-osf4.0 ...   GAS: 4      BIN: 1
arc-elf ...                LD: 1   
arm-aout ...               GAS: 1   LD: 4   
arm-epoc-pe ...            GAS: 1   LD: 2   
arm-netbsdelf ...          BIN: 1
arm-nto ...                LD: 2   
arm-wince-pe ...           GAS: 1   LD: 7   
avr-elf ...                LD: 1   
d10v-elf ...               GAS: 3   LD: 3   
dlx-elf ...                LD: 1   
h8300-coff ...             GAS: 1      
h8300-elf ...              GAS: 3      
i686-pc-cygwin ...         GAS: 1   LD: 1   BIN: 2
i686-pc-elf ...            GAS: 1      
ip2k-elf ...               LD: 2   
iq2000-elf ...             GAS: 20   LD: 8   
m32r-elf ...               BIN: 1
m68hc11-elf ...            GAS: 1      
m68k-aout ...              LD: 2   
m68k-coff ...              LD: 3   
m68k-elf ...               LD: 1   
mcore-pe ...               LD: 1   
mingw32-pe ...             GAS: 1   LD: 1   BIN: 2
mips-elf ...               LD: 1   
mipsel-linux-gnu ...       LD: 2   
mips64-linux ...           LD: 2   
mmix-elf ...               LD: 3   
mmix-mmixware ...          LD: 3   
msp430-elf ...             GAS: 3   LD: 1   
ns32k-netbsd ...           LD: 1   
or32-elf ...               LD: 3   
powerpc-nto ...            LD: 8   
rs6000-aix4.3.3 ...        GAS: 4      
s390-linux ...             GAS: 1   LD: 2   
sh-coff ...                LD: 1   
sh64-superh-linux-gnu ...  GAS: 4
sparc64-linux-gnu ...      GAS: 1      
sparc64-netbsd ...         GAS: 1      
sparc-linux-gnu ...        GAS: 1     


I am not sure how useful this information is to you, since from a brief 
scan of the logs there does not appear to be a single cause for these 
failures.  Would you like copies of the logs ?

Cheers
 Nick