bogus FAILs from mmix ld testsuite

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 05:04:47PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 17.11.2025 16:27, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > On Nov 17 2025, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> >> .../ld/.libs/ld-new: tmpdir/bpo-7.o:(.text+0x2): undefined reference to `areg'
> >> failed with: <.../ld/.libs/ld-new: tmpdir/bpo-7.o:(.text+0x2): undefined reference to `areg'>, expected: <^[^c][^h][^i][^l][^d].* undefined reference to `areg'$>
> > 
> > What are the real first five characters of the message?  Because, if any
> > of them happens to match a character in "child" the match will fail.
> 
> The path starts with /home/jbeulich. (Also this wouldn't change when re-running
> "make check", I suppose.

The 'h' in /home doesn't match the regex.

> Yet as said, the re-run doesn't hit the same FAILs.)

Are you sure about that?  I consistently get fails if building mmix
with --enable-shared, because then the ld-new file name is given as an
absolute path.  My default --disable-shared mmix builds report
"./ld-new".

-- 
Alan Modra