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Re: Testsuite failure for gold on x86_64 Fedora 9
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Kris Van Hees <kris dot van dot hees at oracle dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:20:47 -0800
- Subject: Re: Testsuite failure for gold on x86_64 Fedora 9
- References: <20081212142908.GD27522@oracle.com> <m3k5a5iej2.fsf@google.com>
> Yes, thanks. The compiler supports -mtls-dialect=gnu2 but glibc does
> not. We just need to fix the configure test for whether glibc
> supports the new relocations. I assumed that they would be
> implemented by glibc 2.5, but they weren't. I'm not sure that they
> are implemented even today. I haven't gotten around to figuring out
> whether and when they are implemented.
There is still a known bug or two in gold with this option that I've
got on my list to fix, but I've been putting it off until I can get
around to building a newer version of glibc to test with.
-cary