Re: "make tests" fails with "libc.so: text relocations used" in glibc-2.3.2 for sh4

[Dan Kegel]

kaz Kojima wrote:
> > Now I'm trying glibc-2.3.2, but "make tests" fails at build time with error
> > make[2]: *** [/gcc-3.3-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/elf/check-textrel.out] Error 1
> >
> > Looking inside check-textrel.out, I see the errors
> > /gcc-3.3-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/libc.so: text relocations used ...
>
> If you looked the output of readelf -a libc.so closely, you could
> find that the only text relocation occurs for __fpscr_values in
> __udivsi3_i4 which is a libgcc function. So a fix would be to
> write a PIC version of __udivsi3_i4. But it seems a trade-off
> between slight inefficiency of the integral division and one text
> relocation.

Aha.  So glibc's check-textrel regression test is being overly picky,
and should not abort the run here?

Thanks for the info.
- Dan