make check failure: elf/vismain : Timed out: killed the child process

[Bruno Haible]

Andreas Jaeger writes:

> That's a problem of interaction with gcc and binutils.  I'm not sure
> what the exact versions are so that this test will work

According to H.J.'s mail
   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-07/msg00231.html
the binutils versions 2.9.5.0.x with x < 46 are likely to make the
vismain test fail.

> Does anybody know for sure if gcc 2.95.2 supports this test with any
> binutils version?

I'm running gcc-2.95.2 with binutils 2.10.0.something, and in this
configuration the vismain test succeeds.

Bruno