Release 2.21 - Pre tests

[Matthias Klose]

On 23.11.2010 17:32, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is the result of a first pre-test.  I still plan to update the target list.
>
> Two comments:
>
> 1) are the arm-eabi failures expected ?

I see these too, these seem to be introduced after 20101028.

> 2) I wasn't able to build gold with the compilers I used (gcc 4.1.2 from RH or gcc 4.1.0 from SUSE)

the gold builds did succeed with 4.4 and 4.5.


Looking at
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=binutils&suite=experimental
afaics these are not regressions compared to 2.20.1

alpha-linux:
Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-alpha-Je8ajU/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/shared.exp 
...
FAIL: Build libpr9676-4a.so
FAIL: Build libpr9679.so
Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-alpha-Je8ajU/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp 
...
FAIL: vers24a
FAIL: vers24b
FAIL: vers24c
FAIL: vers30
FAIL: vers31
Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-alpha-Je8ajU/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-plugin/plugin.exp 
...
FAIL: plugin claimfile lost symbol

x86_64-linux-gnu: ok

> arm-eabi: FAIL: R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 Relocation veneers: Long
> arm-eabi: FAIL: R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 Relocation veneers: Short 1
> arm-eabi: FAIL: R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 Relocation veneers: Short 2
> arm-linux-gnueabi: OK

same here.

ia64-linux: ok

mips,mipsel-linux: ok, 67 fails, but no regressions.

powerpc-linux:
Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-powerpc-XdExQa/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-plugin/plugin.exp 
...
FAIL: plugin claimfile lost symbol
FAIL: plugin claimfile replace symbol
FAIL: plugin claimfile resolve symbol
FAIL: plugin claimfile replace file
FAIL: plugin set symbol visibility
FAIL: plugin ignore lib
FAIL: plugin claimfile replace lib

s390-linux: ok

sparc-linux: ok

hurd, kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64:

Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-hurd-i386-bmt3A9/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap.exp 
...
FAIL: bootstrap
FAIL: bootstrap with strip
FAIL: bootstrap with --traditional-format
FAIL: bootstrap with --no-keep-memory
FAIL: bootstrap with --relax
Running 
/build/buildd-binutils_2.20.90.20101121-1-hurd-i386-bmt3A9/binutils-2.20.90.20101121/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest.exp 
...
FAIL: cdtest
FAIL: cdtest with -Ur