Re: -fpic support detection in testsuite

2008-02-19 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jan Beulich wrote: > Should the testsuite not instead do a test whether all involved tools > are able to handle -fPIC and its results)? *shrug* Then, would you want to build a dso or just link something compiled with -fpic/-fPIC or both? (I guess just the link; save the othe

Re: -fpic support detection in testsuite

2008-02-19 Thread Janis Johnson
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:04 +, Jan Beulich wrote: > gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp checks whether the compiler spits > out any messages when using -fpic/-fPIC; this doesn't cover the case > where the compiler happily processes everything, but the linker cannot > deal with the result (in

-fpic support detection in testsuite

2008-02-19 Thread Jan Beulich
gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp checks whether the compiler spits out any messages when using -fpic/-fPIC; this doesn't cover the case where the compiler happily processes everything, but the linker cannot deal with the result (in the given case, because the specific gas (x86) in use accepts