Build fails make check.

[Vital Mission Software]

I am building I configured binutils-2.17 using the procedures set down 
in LFS.6.3.

I created a separate build directory and configured from there.
../binutils-2.17/configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-shared

Make was uneventful.

make check failed. The relevant lines are 

Running /sources/binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-alpha/alpha.exp ...
FAIL: TLS -fpic -shared
FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec
FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec -relax
Running /sources/binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec64k.exp ...
FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec
Running /sources/binutils-2.17/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp ...
FAIL: vers24a
FAIL: vers24b
FAIL: vers24c
FAIL: vers30
FAIL: vers31

                === ld Summary ===

# of expected passes            217
# of unexpected failures        9
# of expected failures          32

Compiler is
Target: alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured 
with: ../gcc-4.1.2/configure --prefix=/tools --with-local-prefix=/tools 
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix 
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libstdcxx-pch
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2

I suspect, from previous experiences, that the problem is with new 
relocation mechanisms that the alpha utilities haven't caught up with.
Point me in the right direction and I will be happy to assist with 
solving these problems, testing fixes and so forth.

Keith Harwood.

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