Binutils checkin policy (Re: i386 gas is broken)

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:34:53AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
>> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:30:50PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
>> > > What fun!  Corrupted frag chain, so something is scribbling where it
>> > > shouldn't.  More fallout from 2001-11-14 Daniel Jacobowitz, I think.
> 
>> 
>> There were no gas patches in there, so it's less likely than the
>> last days gas changes.
>> 
> 
>> > I'd like to suggest a policy that any non-minor changes to binutils
>> > should pass
>> >
>> > # .../configure --enable-targets=all --enable-64-bit-bfd
>> > # make
>> > # make check
>> >
>> > on Linux/x86.
> 
>> 
>> (I guess you mean --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu if that's not the
>> host system.)
> 
> 
> Many linker tests will only be run for native build on Linux/x86.
> "--enable-targets=all --enable-64-bit-bfd" will always help.

Just FYI, It isn't reasonable to assume that someone has access to a 
native GNU/Linux/i386 machine.

Andrew