#3494: Book lacks any discussion/explanation of binutils 'make check' output
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Reporter: kammet | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.5
Component: Book | Version: SVN
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Comment (by kammet):
Thanks. To be honest, by the time I got to section 6.13 I had completely
forgotten about the Section 4.6 mention of the test suite logs. So, yes,
I am now reassured that my build is OK and proceeding "normally". But it
still doesn't satisfy my curiosity as to why particular failures should be
expected. I don't find any clues in the Gnu Binutils Documentation at
http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.24. I did find the following at
http://sourceware.org/binutils/binutils-porting-guide.txt:
"On completion of the binutils test run, a summary of the results will
be in the binutils directory in the binutils.sum file. More detailed
information will also be available in the binutils/binutils.log file.
For the gas testsuite the results are in the gas/testsuite/gas.sum and
gas/testsuite/gas.log files and for the linker testsuite they are in
the ld/ld.sum and ld/ld.log files."
It was interesting to look at those logs, but they don't seem to give any
reason for "expected failures". Since the goal of LFS seems to be
primarily educational rather than just about achieving a working system, I
would appreciate a bit more explanation about these tests. Also, maybe
mention the locations of the log files generated by the testsuites.
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