success (distclean), and almost success (make check).

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

Further to my recent attempts to build binutils from cvs:

I have tried to replicate the problems that I seemed to have with a
build then make distclean in the source directory, and than a build
in a parallel directory.  I am pleased to ba able to report that
this, when done without cvs update -d, works successfully.  You can
see the evidence for the success at:

http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/binutils-cvs-make-distclean-test.txt


The straightforward build, just using a parallel directory, does
fail one test for gas, but I don't know if that is significant.

Running
/export/home/Scratch/hgs/binutils-cvs/src/gas/testsuite/gas/cfi/cfi.exp
...
FAIL: CFI on SPARC 64-bit

http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/binutils-cvs-failure.txt

Should I be concerned about this?  I'll report on the results for
installing this in a temporary place later.

        Thank you,
        Hugh