Re: [patch] Allow compilation by IBM's xlc compiler

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:03:35PM -0800, Paul Gilliam wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 14:45, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Paul Gilliam wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Several of your mails have been empty - not useful.
> 
> Please don't exagerate: it's only 40%   8-)

They were still coming in when I wrote that :-)

> > Also, they could all do with a little explanation.
> 
> I thought the subject was enough, but if you want more detail, I can do that.
> Basicly we're just trying to get the testsuite to run with the IBM xlc compiler.
> For the most part, it's just renameing the flags: -qmkshrobj for -shared,
> -qpic for -fpic and that kind of thing.  In one case, xlc was puting out a warning
> that gcc doesn't and that had be turned off.

Explanations with the patch, please.  No exceptions.  I want to be able
to look back in the archives and understand why a patch was needed.

> > The patches for -shared are not great.  I posted a testcase (several
> > months ago, for a patch which is still pending) which moved the
> > PIC/shared tests to lib/gdb.exp.  One of us should dust off that patch
> > if you need to add cases to every one of them.
> > 
> 
> Could you give me a URL to your testsuite patch?  I have 6 or so of these so If 
> you have a better way, I'd love to use it.

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-11/msg00538.html

The testcase should wait until the patch it's testing is reviewed, but
you can use the lib/gdb.exp bits.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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