Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 06:32:45PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> please do a release build for 2.26.1 this time ;)

Related to that, I notice we have a bunch of x86_64-linux ld testsuite
fails for 2.26 when --as-needed is the default.  HJ, please backport
the fixes you applied to master.

x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build copyreloc-main with PIE without -fPIE (1)
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build copyreloc-main with PIE without -fPIE (1)
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build copyreloc-main with PIE without -fPIE (2)
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build copyreloc-main with PIE without -fPIE (2)
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17689 with PIE without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17689 with PIE without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17689 with PIE -z now without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17689 with PIE -z now without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17827 with PIE without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr17827 with PIE without -fPIE
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr18900a
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr18900a
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr18900b
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build pr18900b
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build gotpcrel1
x86_64-linux  FAIL: Build gotpcrel1

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM