Problems with linker on Alpha

[Michael Cree]

On 03/05/11 07:26, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 04/30/2011 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
>> Secondly, I noted a number of test suite failures in the ld component
>> while building binutils.
>
> "Large number"?  I get
[...snip...]
>                  === ld tests ===
>
> Running target alpha-qemu
> FAIL: plugin claimfile lost symbol
> FAIL: plugin claimfile replace symbol
> FAIL: plugin claimfile resolve symbol
> XPASS: Preserve default . = 0
> XPASS: Preserve explicit . = 0
>
>                  === ld Summary ===
>
> # of expected passes            278
> # of unexpected failures        3
> # of unexpected successes       2
> # of expected failures          7

Building binutils 2.21.51.20110419-2 from Debian (also with my fix tls 
patch) I get:

                 === ld tests ===

Running target unix
FAIL: Build libpr9676-4a.so
FAIL: Build libpr9679.so
FAIL: vers24a
FAIL: vers24b
FAIL: vers24c
FAIL: vers30
FAIL: vers31
FAIL: plugin claimfile lost symbol
FAIL: plugin claimfile replace symbol
FAIL: plugin claimfile resolve symbol
XPASS: Preserve default . = 0
XPASS: Preserve explicit . = 0

                 === ld Summary ===

# of expected passes            505
# of unexpected failures        10
# of unexpected successes       2
# of expected failures          34
# of untested testcases         1

I see there's a lot more tests done with the unix target, nevertheless 
I'll re-test with binutils master cvs to see if some of those unexpected 
failures go away.

Cheers
Michael.