Re: gold linker 2.22 regressed for DragonFly

[John Marino <binutils at marino dot st>]

On 1/3/2012 8:43 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
>> I just drilled into the testsuite directory and typed ">gmake
>> check-TESTS" and went through 137 tests.  DragonFly failed 42 of them
>> (attached).
> 
> That doesn't work, you have to run "make check".  That is an automake
> thing.
> 

Hi Ian,
I think you missed my follow-on post which preceded yours:
http://cygwin.com/ml/binutils/2012-01/msg00026.html

By manually generating the support files, I got down to 7 failures,
which I describe in the first post.  Would you mind taking a quick look
at the new test results and provide any comments?

Regards,
John

FYI: Gold v2.22 can now DragonFly world.
However, the boot loader no longer works (a gold v2.21 boot loader
worked).
A gold v2.21 kernel worked, and probably gold 2.22 as well, but neither
version of gold can build kernel modules.  Again, it's a similar loader
problem.  I didn't mention it after v2.21 because I was hoping all the
work for 2.22 would fix it, but I guess I need to open a ticket to
describe the issue so it can be formally examined.