Commit: Expect extract symbol test to fail for MIPS

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Maciej,

>   I did some investigation actually as I noticed this new failure a few
> weeks ago, and I have a change in progress I haven't yet had time to
> complete.  I came to the conclusion in the MIPS case empty `.reginfo',
> `.MIPS.options' and `.MIPS.abiflags' sections should simply be discarded
> (i.e. preferebly not created in output in the first place and ignored if
> seen) as they are meaningless anyway.  Otherwise we end up with broken ELF
> files we cannot handle anymore, not even `objcopy' them to fix that.

OK - this makes sense.  I do not know enough about the MIPS ABI to make this kind of change myself, but I am happy if you are happy.


>>    Instead I am applying the patch below (mainline and 2.26 branch) to
>>    mark the extract symbols test as an expected failure for the MIPS
>>    target.
>
>   So obviously I'll now have to revert this change along the proper fix.

Yes please. :-)

Cheers
   Nick