FYI, mips64-linux failures

[Thiemo Seufer]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:01:55AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On the 2.14 branch, for "mips64-linux":
> > > simple objcopy adds an empty .rel.text section (there's already a .rela.text
> > > section).  This messes up the test, rightfully.
> > 
> > None of the utilities in /binutils seems to use bfd_merge_private_bfd_data
> > as ld does, this keeps the ELF header flags long enough unset to make the
> > NEWABI_P test in _bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections fail.
> > 
> > This probably means the copied object fails on IRIX6.
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> > > In readelf -s the Ndx column appears to be one low for most entries.
> > 
> > It fails for mips-linux, too, but not for mips-elf.
> 
> Not for mipsel-linux, either.  Interesting.  Any ideas?

mipsel-linux produces an empty .rela.text section, mips-linux doesn't.
That's truely strange.


Thiemo