Subject: Re: bug#10247: [GNU Libtool 2.4.2] testsuite: 119 passed unexpectedly

From: David Fang <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:29:46 -0500 (EST)

Hi Peter,

Attached is tests/testsuite.log [bzip2].

Found that:
| configure:7722: checking for -force_load linker flag
| gcc -g -O2 -c -o conftest.o conftest.c
| ar cru libconftest.a conftest.o
| ranlib libconftest.a
| gcc -g -O2 -L/sw/lib -o conftest conftest.c -Wl,-force_load,./libconftest.a
| /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: unknown flag: -force_load
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| configure:7754: result: no

Fang

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> On 12/07/2011 12:41 PM, David Fang wrote:
>>  Hi Libtoolers,
>>  Testing 2.4.2 on powerpc-darwin8, I got just one lone test failure (119:
>>  darwin gdb debug failure). Otherwise, everything else looks good.
>> 
>>
>>  Mac OS X tests
>>
>>  117: darwin fat compile skipped (darwin.at:42)
>>  118: darwin concurrent library extraction ok
>>  119: darwin gdb debug information UNEXPECTED PASS
>
> Hi David,
>
> It's likely a test bug, safe to ignore. I'll look into it when I have the 
> time.
>
> Peter
>
>

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