Increased testsuite failues in binutils-2.11.1 using gcc-3.01

[Manfred Hollstein]

Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:09:38PM -0400, David Ronis wrote:
> > Running /home/ronis/binutils-2.11.1/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp ...
> > FAIL: i386 katmai
> > FAIL: i386 ssemmx2
> > FAIL: i386 sse2
> 
> I don't get these failures.

At least this one is caused by the non-complete binutils-2.11.1
distribution, ie. the objdump program which gets invoked is not the
one from binutils, simply because that directory had been omitted
from the release...

[...]
> > Running /home/ronis/binutils-2.11.1/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/selective.exp ...
> > FAIL: selective4
> > XPASS: selective7
> 
> Again, the binutils testsuite needs updating.  ld-selective should
> probably be using "nm -C" so that the next name mangling change doesn't
> bomb it again.

This may be the same phenomenon.

> > Running /home/ronis/binutils-2.11.1/ld/testsuite/ld-srec/srec.exp ...
> > FAIL: S-records with constructors
> 
> I don't get this failure either, possibly due to the fact that I
> built gcc-3.0 for --target=i586-linux.  binutils was configured for
> i686-linux.
> 
> Alan Modra

Cheers.

l8er
manfred