Add $AFLAGS_PIC flags for PIC assembly to a number of tests missing them
and remove `tic6x-*-*' XFAIL annotations from them, previously added to
paper over:
.../ld-new: warning: generating a shared library containing non-PID code
error messages produced due to `-mpic -mpid=near' GAS options having not
been used. Such errors now do not happen anymore, removing:
XFAIL: Build shared library for pr14170
XFAIL: PR ld/21703 shared
XFAIL: Build shared library for broken linker script test
XFAIL: Build pr17068.so
XFAIL: -Bsymbolic-functions
XFAIL: Build pr20995.so
XFAIL: Build pr22374 shared library
with `tic6x-elf' and `tic6x-uclinux' targets. These tests now pass all
except for:
FAIL: PR ld/21703 shared
which is now due to a different reason, as follows:
extra regexps in .../ld/testsuite/ld-elf/pr21703-shared.sd starting with "^Symbol table '\.dynsym' contains [0-9]+ entries:$"
EOF from dump.out
FAIL: PR ld/21703 shared
The addition of $AFLAGS_PIC requires the affected test cases to use the
`list' command rather than `{}' characters to create a list, to avoid
the quoting property `{}' also have in TCL. Consequently the change is
slightly more extensive than it could otherwise be.
ld/
* testsuite/ld-elf/shared.exp: Add $AFLAGS_PIC throughout to PIC
assembly builds where missing and remove `tic6x-*-*' XFAIL
markings accordingly.
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The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
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similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
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HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
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workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
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