At master c77852c (HEAD as of this writing), binutils configured with --target=mipsel-linux-gnu with no other tools in $PATH (e.g. no target-gcc), gets this error in the ld test-suite with "make check": Running /xx/src/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/shared.exp ... FAIL: DT_TEXTREL map file warning In ld/ld.log: ... extra regexps in /xx/src/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/textrel.map starting with "^.*dynamic relocation .* read-only section.*$" EOF from tmpdir/ld.messages FAIL: DT_TEXTREL map file warning Also seen if configured with --target=mipsisa32r2el-linux-gnu.