Re: [PATCH] Fix GNU nm invocation for AIX

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Richard,

* Richard Sandiford wrote on Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:32:54PM CEST:
> [off-list]

;-)

I'll continue on-list, hope you don't mind.

> Can I just ping this?

Sure.  I think that I will get to it (both patches) this weekend.
Basically I will do the testing myself on 5.3, 4.3.3, and maybe 5.1.  If
somebody beats me to this, and is able to post testsuite.log files (even
sanitized or anonymized would be ok), then be my guest.

> To recap, the aim of the submission was to get binutils on AIX as good
> as native tools on AIX.  I think I've done that.  It'd be nice if we had
> zero libtool failures for native tools to begin with, but I'm afraid
> I really don't have time to work on that myself.

I don't expect you to work this, but both the 4.3.3 testing and the
testsuite.log output were missing on this issue still.  While I
certainly trust you on the fact that failures were the same, there
is also the issue that often, even only slightly differing setups cause
a different set of exposed quirks so that log files are valuable in any
case, if only for doing statistics for the next to-be-analyzed bug.

Cheers,
Ralf

> Richard Sandiford <address@hidden> writes:
> > Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Thanks.  Can you please also send the tests/testsuite.log file
> >> (preferably bzip2'ed or gzip'ed), that makes analyzing the failures
> >> much easier.
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't think I'm allowed to send out things like that.
> > The output before each failure is the same as it was with the native
> > tools and preinstalled gcc though.