egcs-1.1 release issues

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9808270516.AA34052@marc.watson.ibm.com >you write:
  > >>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
  > Jeff> Found 'em.  They aren't really regressions.
  > 
  > Jeff> gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.0.3a do not issue a warning when you use -fPIC
  > Jeff> with ABI_AIX, but egcs-1.1 does.  This causes the testsuite to think
  > Jeff> those tests failed their test for excess errors.
  > 
  > 	Oh, that?  Really?  That was an unforunate and bad assumption on
  > the part of the testsuite.  That is *exactly* why I added that failure.
  > The testsuite definitely should not have assumed that all targets utilize
  > and/or need -fpic/-fPIC as a specific variant. 
Yup.  The testsuite's handling of PIC options needs major improvement
On my todo list is to look at Robert Lipe's patch which does improve
some of this kind of stuff.

It wasn't a major problem -- once enough of the Sunnyvale net was
back to normal it was easy enough to run a make check there and
see why things were failing.

jeff