current binutils trunk failures on cygwin

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

>>> FAIL: copy with seting section flags 2
> 
> objcopy --set-section-flags .text=alloc,data
> 
> doesn't work on COFF. Someone needs to fix it or I can make it ELF
> only.

It does work with COFF targets (eg alpha-linuxecoff).  The problem is PE 
based targets where there is code to ensure that certain named sections 
(eg .text) are given specific section flags.  This is in order to comply 
with the PE spec, so really this is not a bug, but a feature.

So I am going to apply the attached patch to resolve this problem by 
changing the name of the section involved from .text to foo.  Actually 
it does not resolve the problem for AOUT based targets since they do not 
support arbitrarily named sections, so the test is just marked as 
unsupported for them.  But I think that skipping AOUT targets is better 
than skipping PE targets.

Cheers
   Nick

binutils/testsuite/ChangeLog
2006-05-02  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* binutils-all/copy-2.d: Change the name of the section whose
	flags are changed to "foo" so that the test will work with PE
	based targets.  Skip this test for AOUT based targeted.
	* binutils-all/copytest.s: New file.

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