Re: egcs-CVS19980627, mips-sgi-irix6.2 bootstrap problem ...

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199806292359.QAA00248@rtl.cygnus.com>you write:
  > Apparently, the new SGI assembler requires that assembler files end with a .s.
  > If there is no .s extension, then the assembler does the same thing the
  > compiler would, it treats it as an object file that should be passed to the
  > linker.  The linker then gives an error because an assembler file is not
  > a valid object file.
Damn "smart" assemblers.


  > If it is necessary to drop the extension for security reasons, then we have
  > a problem.  It looks very hard to fix this in the irix6 port.  Easiest solution
  > would be a way to disable this gcc.c feature for targets that have
  > inconvenient assemblers, if GNU as if not being used.
  > 
  > This patch gets my irix6 build going again.  Reversing the uses of suffix
  > and p would probably be more elegant.
  > 
  > Mon Jun 29 16:55:05 1998  Jim Wilson  <wilson@cygnus.com>
  > 
  > 	* gcc.c (do_spec_1, case 'g'): Delete redundant setting of
  > 	delete_this_arg.  Restore p at end of MKTEMP_EACH_FILE code.
This undoes many of the security fixes.

I think the way to handle this is to pass the desired suffix down
to our mkstemp and have it append the suffix to the template temporary
file.

I'll see what I can come up with.  But the first order of business
tonight is to check in the merge.

jeff