------- Comment #4 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2009-04-13 14:22 ------- (In reply to comment #3) > Reopening this bug, it is not a duplicate of 39733: > > bug #39733 is about an extra -v added to the argument list of subprocesses, > and is due to gcc.misc-tests/options.exp and lib/options.exp defining the same > functions, and I think is fixed by the patch that HJ posted. I do not know > whether that patch is desirable though: it renames the old function (so there > could be active branches which now use the old function, but after merging > could be using check_for_options from lib/options.exp). > > bug #39749 is, AIUI, a report about passing --help to an assembler on Darwin, > and this as does not understand --help. This is a genuine bug in gcc and/or > as, and is only uncovered, but not caused, by the help.exp tests. >
I will bet they are the same bug. One easy way to verify it is to apply my patch for PR 39733 to see if those failures disappear. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39749
