testsuite failures in the ld testsuite on arm-linux-gnueabi

[Matthias Klose]

Binary package hint: binutils

the following tests in the ld testsuite fail on arm-linux-gnueabi; they don't fail on Debian unstable, building binutils without the hardening options or with gcc-4.3 doesn't make any difference.

Running /build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091006/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvsb/elfvsb.exp ...
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal) (non PIC)
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal) (non PIC, load offset)
FAIL: visibility (normal) (non PIC)
FAIL: visibility (normal) (non PIC, load offset)

Running /build/buildd/binutils-2.19.91.20091006/ld/testsuite/ld-shared/shared.exp ...
FAIL: shared (non PIC)
FAIL: shared (non PIC, load offset)
FAIL: shared (PIC main, non PIC so)

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

It's not clear how badly these are affecting us; are real binaries affected by the failures? They look like another instance of non-PIC binaries.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

current binutils rebuilt with gcc-4.3 and eglibc-2.9 (last binaries found in the archive) don't show the failures.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

as soon as binutils is built with either gcc-4.4 or eglibc-2.10.1 the testcases start to fail.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

seen as well on debian/testing, debian/unstable when built with 4.4 and 4.5
filed http://gcc.gnu.org/PR41684

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

With 2.20-0ubuntu1, still fails:
Running /build/buildd/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvsb/elfvsb.exp ...
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal) (non PIC)
FAIL: visibility (hidden_normal) (non PIC, load offset)
FAIL: visibility (normal) (non PIC)
FAIL: visibility (normal) (non PIC, load offset)

Running /build/buildd/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-shared/shared.exp ...
FAIL: shared (non PIC)
FAIL: shared (non PIC, load offset)
FAIL: shared (PIC main, non PIC so)

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

(This is from /usr/share/doc/binutils/test-summary.gz)

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I'm closing the task on eglibc since I don't think it relates to the binutils failures and it is PIC again in its latest version.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Too late for karmic

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

binutils will probably just need a rebuild when gcc-4.4 is fixed, but this is too late for karmic now.

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

I get the impression that this should be fixed for Lucid already, is that correct? If there are no plans to SRU this for karmic, can we go ahead and close the remaining tasks?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

no, the tests still fail in lucid with both eglibc-2.10.x and 2.11

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

proposed patch: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-02/msg00086.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.20-6ubuntu1

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binutils (2.20-6ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build binutils-static.

binutils (2.20-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply updates from the 2.20 branch up to 20100205
    - 135_arm_dis_thumb2.dpatch: Remove, applied upstream.
    - 136_gold_gnu_debuglink.dpatch: Remove, applied upstream.
  * armel: Fix ld-shared/shared.exp and ld-elfvsb/elfvsb.exp failures
    (proposed patch, Matthew Gretton-Dann). Closes: #564685. LP: #446478.
  * Fix PR other/42602: demangling a global constructors symbol.
    Closes: #561150.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:30:59 +0100