Iain Sandoe <develo...@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk> writes:
> On 8 Dec 2011, at 15:38, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
>> Currently the boehm-gc testsuite fails...
>>
>> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/gctest.c -O2 execution test
>> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/leak_test.c -O2 execution test
>> FAIL: boehm-gc.c/thread_leak_test.c -O2 execution test
>> FAIL: boehm-gc.lib/staticrootstest.c -O2 execution test
>
> you have not answered these questions:
>
> a) "what is anything being built in these tests which is not PIC"?
> b) and why is it being built that way?
>
> ISTM the fix below should not be required
> - and the problem lies in something being built with -mdynamic-no-pic or
> similar
>
> - that is what we should fix.
Agreed. We shouldn't spread target-specific code like this all over the
testsuite.
Rainer
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