make check failures with binutils-2.17

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Mike,

> cross compile targets that failed:
> alpha-linux-gnu
> armeb-linux-gnu
> avr

Do you mean "avr-elf" here ?

> hppa-linux-gnu
> hppa64-linux-gnu
> mips64-linux-gnu
> mips64el-linux-gnu

Do all these targets fail in the same way ?

Were you able to build other targets that do not fail the make check ?

Anyway to answer your question, I do not have access to a ppc machine, 
but I do have an amd64 machine (running a 64-bit OS) and on that machine 
I get these results:

The alpha-linux-gnu toolchain fails the LD check with:

  FAIL: TLS -fpic -shared
  FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec
  FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec -relax
  FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec

The armeb-linux-gnu toolchain fails the GAS check with:

  FAIL: Unwind table generation

The avr-elf toolchain fails the GAS check with:

  FAIL: lns-common-1

The hppa-linux-gnu and hppa64-linux-gnu toolchains fail the GAS check with:

  XPASS: Check min/max values for .block

The mips64-linux-gnu and mips64el-linux-gnu toolchains fail the LD check 
with:

  FAIL: ld-elf/orphan2
  FAIL: ld-mips-elf/reloc-1-n64
  FAIL: MIPS eh-frame 1, n32
  FAIL: MIPS eh-frame 1, n64
  FAIL: MIPS eh-frame 2, n32
  FAIL: MIPS eh-frame 2, n64


Does this match your own findings ?

Cheers
   Nick