From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
To: ian@zembu.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Cc: fheitka@ibm.net, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: binutils on PowerPC Linux APUS
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:38:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990702153803.552C257B9@ocean.lucon.org>
References: <19990702141618.29188.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00019.html

> 
>    Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:20:25 -0400
>    From: "F. Heitkamp" <fheitka@ibm.net>
> 
>    This is make check on PowerPC Linux on APUS (Amiga with PPC PowerUP
>    card).  I used binutils 2.9.1.0.25, egcs-1.1.2, and glibc-2.1.1 for
>    the build.  The kernel version is 2.2.8d.  Following the 'make check'
>    results are the tar-gzipped-MIME binutils log files.
> 
> Here are some lines from the binutils.log file:
> 
> spawn /drives/work1/src/binutils-bin/binutils/ar rc tmpdir/artest.a tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 tmpdir/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2
> spawn failed
> 
> In fact, according to binutils.log, DejaGnu never managed to
> successfully run a program.
> 
> If you can run the program /drives/work1/src/binutils-bin/binutils/ar
> by hand, then I think the problem is in DejaGnu.  For some reason, it
> is failing to actually start the program.
> 
> If you can not run the program by hand, then the bug is somewhere in
> the way the programs were built.
> 

I have seen that one before. Make sure you have devpts in kernel.
I have

none            /dev/pts        devpts        gid=5,mode=620    0 0

in /etc/fstab.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)