Re: [RFT PATCH v4 0/8] Sysroot series

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:03:11PM CEST:
> On 8/1/2010 10:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> 112: override pic_flag at configure time   FAILED (pic_flag.at:48)
> >>
> >> 112 has been discussed before and should be
> >> skipped on non-ELF.
> > 
> > Since I wasn't around, why is this regressing?  Is it intermittent?
> > Maybe a double-check of the testsuite.dir would be nice.
> 
> It's not technically a "regression" since AFAIK there was never a time
> when that particular test actually passed on cygwin/mingw.  IIRC, it is
> a new testsuite addition that was never validated on cygwin/mingw.  The
> fact that the test failed on cygming just wasn't caught until I reported
> it some months ago, in another context.
> 
> However, there have always been bigger fish to fry, so nobody has gotten
> around to making it skip on non-ELF, or figuring out how to translate
> the test into terms that might make sense on PE/COFF.

I have it on my TODO list (since I wrote the test in the first place),
but people keep pushing review tasks further up my TODO list ... ;-)

Just ignore the failure for now; it is merely a testsuite bug.

Cheers,
Ralf