diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index c02f5e8e3a..86a4fce21b 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-12-03  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp (objdump_dynsymstuff): Don't abort
+	on non-empty results with empty expected.
+
 2016-12-03  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-foo.cc: Test for __GNUG__ >= 2.
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp
index 2f86938f5c..a2a678b924 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp
@@ -390,8 +390,12 @@ proc objdump_dynsymstuff { objdump object expectfile } {
 	close $file_b
 
 	# Support empty files.
-	if { ![info exists list_a] && ![info exists list_b] } then {
-	    return 1
+	if { ![info exists list_a] } then {
+	    if { ![info exists list_b] } then {
+		return 1
+	    }
+	    verbose -log "\t$tmpdir/objdump.out: $list_b"
+	    return 0
 	}
 
 	for { set i 0 } { $i < [llength $list_b] } { incr i } {