Re: timestamp in coff header breaks ld testsuite

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Hi Donn, Hi Egor,

> This patch should help.   I believe it was submitted over two years
> ago, but never got applied,

Thanks very much.

> -    send_log "cmp tmpdir/ld2 tmpdir/ld3\n"
> -    verbose "cmp tmpdir/ld2 tmpdir/ld3"
> -    catch "exec cmp tmpdir/ld2 tmpdir/ld3" exec_output
> +    send_log "compare tmpdir/ld2 tmpdir/ld3\n"
> +    verbose "compare tmpdir/ld2 tmpdir/ld3"
> +    # Trim off the date
> +    # Altho this works, a way to poke the date would be better;
> +    # Removing the date stamp completely has met with objections from
> +    # end users.
> +    exec tail +140 tmpdir/ld2 >tmpdir/ld2tail
> +    exec tail +140 tmpdir/ld3 >tmpdir/ld3tail
> +    catch "exec cmp tmpdir/ld2tail tmpdir/ld3tail" exec_output
> +    exec rm tmpdir/ld2tail tmpdir/ld3tail
>      set exec_output [prune_warnings $exec_output]

I have applied this patch, with a slightly tweaked comment.  I hope
that it will help Egor with his tests.

Cheers
        Nick