pitiful results for GCC 4.8.0

[Dennis Clarke]

> On 30 April 2013 01:18, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> >
> > I build GCC 4.8.0 on the exact same platform that I built GCC 4.7.3 
> and yet
> > I see really quite different results. Is anyone out there seeing 
> clean results
> > from 4.8.0 ?
> 
> 4.8.0 wouldn't have been released with all those libstdc++ failures,
> so I'm pretty sure noone else is seeing them.
> 
> Try looking in $target/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.log for what is causing
> the failures, but I suspect it will be undefined references.
> 
> All those failing tests rely on symbols that are new to libstdc++.so
> in 4.8.0 so your tests are apparently finding the old libstdc++.so
> from an older compiler, or there's some problem with the linker script
> used to set symbol versions. I don't know why you're seeing this and
> noone else is - it hints the problem is at your end.

yep. 

I was puzzled because I can build 4.7.3 with the same compiler that I build 4.8.0
in much the same way and get very different results.  

So I have to dig a bit deeper to find .. what is going on here.

dc