Re: solaris 2.7 binutils problem

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > Problem #2:  What you're seeing is what happens when GCC has been configured
> > to use one kind of "binutils" (e.g., the native Solaris kind), but the other
> > kind (e.g., GNU's) is actually found.  If you plan on using GNU binutils,
> > then you must configure GCC using the appropriate --with options.
> 
> Regardless, configuring without arguments should build a usable compiler.

I don't disagree.

> The workaround is to always specify --with-ld and/or --with-gnu-ld when
> configuring on solaris.

Like I said... :-)

Actually, both of those need to be used on Solaris, when using GNU's
binutils, unless building from a unified source tree (when the configury
can generally figure these things out on its own).


Phil

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