On a clean install in virtual box, upgrading to ~amd64, src_test fails. FAIL: ld-elf/eh1 FAIL: ld-elf/eh2 FAIL: ld-elf/eh3 FAIL: ld-elf/eh6 Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/exclude.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/frame.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec-to-seg.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/sec64k.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/shared.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/tls_common.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elf/wrap.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elfcomm/elfcomm.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvsb/elfvsb.exp ... FAIL: ld-elfvsb/hidden2 Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-elfweak/elfweak.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-fastcall/fastcall.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-frv/fdpic.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-frv/frv-elf.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-frv/tls.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-gc/gc.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-h8300/h8300.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-i386/i386.exp ... FAIL: TLS -fpic -shared transitions FAIL: TLS descriptor -fpic -shared transitions FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec transitions FAIL: TLS descriptor -fpic and -fno-pic exec transitions FAIL: TLS -fno-pic -shared FAIL: TLS with global dynamic and descriptors FAIL: Reloc section order FAIL: --warn-shared-textrel --fatal-warnings FAIL: ld-i386/hidden2 Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-ia64/ia64.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-ia64/line.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-ifunc/binutils.exp ... Running /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.20/work/binutils-2.20/ld/testsuite/ld-ifunc/ifunc.exp ... FAIL: ld-ifunc/ifunc-1-local-x86 FAIL: ld-ifunc/ifunc-1-x86 FAIL: ld-ifunc/ifunc-2-local-x86-64 FAIL: ld-ifunc/ifunc-2-x86-64 FAIL: ld-ifunc/ifunc-3a-x86 FAIL: ld-scripts/empty-aligned FAIL: TLS -fpic -shared transitions FAIL: TLS descriptor -fpic -shared transitions FAIL: TLS -fpic and -fno-pic exec transitions FAIL: TLS descriptor -fpic and -fno-pic exec transitions FAIL: TLS with global dynamic and descriptors FAIL: ld-x86-64/hidden2 FAIL: ld-x86-64/protected3 === ld Summary === # of expected passes 503 # of unexpected failures 27 # of expected failures 61 emerge --info =sys-devel/binutils-2.20 Portage 2.1.7.4 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:25:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ihug.co.nz/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv idn ipv6 mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd readline reflection session spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20 [2.18-r3] USE="nls test* -gold -multislot -multitarget -vanilla"
Created attachment 209880 [details] build.log
Created attachment 209882 [details] environment
Same problem here with 2.20. Trying stable binutils (2.18-r3) ends up even worse with a SIGSEGV when ld testing is being started. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_4300_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:45:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fgcse-after-reload -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fgcse-after-reload -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.jamit.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/worldforge" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi agg akode alsa amarok amd64 apache2 autoipd avahi bash-completion berkdb blender-game branding bzip2 cairo captury cdaudio cdr cdrom cegui cjk cli clucene consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cviewer cxx daap dbus designer-plugin desktopglobe devil dga dirac djvu dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dxr3 eds emacs embedded emboss encode evo fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fortran gallium gcj gdbm ggi git glibc-omitfp glitz gmm gopher gpg gpm gstreamer hal hdri htmlhandbook iceweasel iconv icu imagemagick insecure-savers ipv6 jabber jack java java5 java6 javascript jingle jpeg kde kde4 kdebuild kdecards kdehiddenvisibility kdepim kdm kontact ktts latex lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lua lzma matroska mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mpi mudflap mule multilib musepack mysql ncurses neon nepomuk networkmanager nio2 nls noamazon nova nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg ogg123 openal openexr opengl openmp oscar oss otr pam pcre pdf perl phonon plasma player png posix povray ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline redland reflection reiser4 reiserfs rss schroedinger sdl sdl-image semantic-desktop sensord session sndfile solver songs sound speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs systemtap tcpd tetex theora threads thunar tidy tiff tk tools truetype type1 unicode usb vhook videos visualization vorbis wav wavpack wxwindows x264 xcomposite xemacs xine xml xorg xosd xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I just tried it with USE="vanilla" and no test failed unexpected. So it is probably caused by something that a Gentoo patch does.
Same problem on my system Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.32-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-x86_64-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E5200_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/home/media/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 ao bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gmp gnome graphviz gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv icu idn imagemagick jpeg jpeg2k kdehiddenvisibility lcms libffi libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors logrotate lua lzma lzo mad matroska mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl session slang sndfile spamassassin spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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binutils-2.20-r1 and binutils-2.20.1 should pass all tests now. if you hit a failure after syncing, file a new report.
