Re: problem booting gcc-3.2.2 (and gcc-3.3) on aix5.2

[LLeweLLyn Reese <llewelly at lifesupport dot shutdown dot com>]

John Ruttenberg <rutt at chezrutt dot com> writes:

> By taking some fixes from the current gcc-3.3 snapshot I am now able to build
> all the stages of this bootstrap.  But the build fails building libstdc++.
> First there are a lot of ar error messages of this sort:
> 
>     BFD: .libs/libsupc++convenience.a(eh_exception.o): Unrecognized storage class 1\
>     11 for .text symbol `_ZTSSt13bad_exception'
>     BFD: .libs/libsupc++convenience.a(eh_exception.o): Unrecognized storage class 1\
>     11 for .text symbol `_ZTSSt9exception'
>     BFD: .libs/libsupc++convenience.a(eh_exception.o): Unrecognized storage class 1\
>     11 for .data symbol `_ZTVSt13bad_exception'
>     BFD: .libs/libsupc++convenience.a(eh_exception.o): Unrecognized storage class 1\
> and then there are a lot of things like this:
> 
>     d: 0711-201 SEVERE ERROR: External symbol typeinfo name for std::bad_exception\
>     , defined in member eh_exception.o
>             of archive ../libsupc++/.libs/libsupc++convenience.a, was not found in \
>     the archive's global symbol table.
> 
> and then the compile dies.
> 
> Anybody know anything about this?


Just a guess. Look into upgrading your binutils. BFD is part of
    binutils.

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