[PATCH 0/3] eliminate native-built programs for elf/ tests

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> These are tailored fairly exactly to what the output from binutils
> readelf looks like, so if it changes its output details in fairly slight
> ways, they could break.  I think binutils maintainers know that people
> write scripts like this and avoid such changes, but if it comes up we
> can make the scripts smarter/more-tolerant in the future.

I think you do need to make sure readelf is run with LC_ALL=C since you're 
matching English text from readelf.  Maybe also awk (the makefiles do run 
awk script with LC_ALL=C in various places) though I'm not sure what 
locale-dependencies apply there.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com