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Binutils checkin policy (Re: i386 gas is broken)

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Nov 6 07:51:00 GMT 2001 
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:59:20PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Many linker tests will only be run for native build on Linux/x86.
> > "--enable-targets=all --enable-64-bit-bfd" will always help.
> 
> Just FYI, It isn't reasonable to assume that someone has access to a 
> native GNU/Linux/i386 machine.

That is ture that not everyone is running Linux. However, the current
ELF linker is mostly developed and tested on Linux. If you don't run
the ELF linker tests natively on Linux, you aren't testing the full
ELF linker. I don't think it is a bad idea for people working on ELF
to get a cheap x86 box to run Linux/x86 with the current glibc.


H.J.
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