On 25-05-2020 16:54, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 5/25/20 11:02 AM, Tom de Vries wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When running test-case gdb.base/break-interp.exp with target board gold, we
>> run into:
>> ...
>> gdb compile failed, pie failed to generate PIE executable
>> ...
>>
>> The problem is that the proc exec_is_pie uses the PIE flag in the readelf -d
>> output, which doesn't seem to be set by the gold linker.
> 
> Seems like a Gold bug?

Yeah, Andreas Schwab had the same comment in bugzilla, so I filed
PR26039 - "gold doesn't add PIE flag" (
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26039 ).	

> A comment in exec_is_pie explaining why we don't
> do the more obvious thing would be helpful, IMO.
> 

Fixed in attached patch, committed.

Thanks,
- Tom