Re: [PATCH/RFC] Fix asm-source.exp on FreeBSD

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>]

   Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:45:35 -0400
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>

   > Ever since asm-source.exp was changed to do the final link using
   > gdb_compile, the tests have been failing for me.  The problem is that
   > FreeBSD's crt1.o defines some symbols (__progname, environ) that are
   > referenced by libc.so, which makes the final link fail.  Compiling
   > statically fixes the problem.
   > 
   > I'm fairly certain that NetBSD and probably OpenBSD suffer from the
   > same problem, so perhaps I should change the regexp to *-*-*bsd*
   > instead.  Can someone check whether that's indeed the case.
   > 
   > I've been using this patch in my local tree for quite some time now,
   > so if I don't see any objections in the coming days, I'll check this
   > in.

   Honestly, I think it should be put back to using the linker directly.

   The intent of the test was to exercise the assembler functionality, when 
   there was no C compiler.  I confirmed this with Michael, the testsuite's 
   author.

   I've never had the time to do it though :-(

Me neither :-(.  Simply reverting to using the linker directly would
probably break quite a few targets.  Fixing those problems would mean
making extensive changes to DejaGNU.  Therefore I've checked my patch
in as a temporary workaround.  These tests are pretty valuable, with
all the new unwinder stuff and such.

Mark