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configure doesn't want to use the GNU linker
- From: FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Richard Sandiford" <richard at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:14:35 +0000
- Subject: configure doesn't want to use the GNU linker
Hi all,
I decided to test the current trunk on mips-sgi-irix6.5, on which I
have already installed the binutils-2.18. The directory contaning GNU
assembler and linker is before that of the SGI ones in my PATH, but
nonetheless, a simple "configure" chooses to use GNU as but the system
ld. I tried to force its hand (in a clean directory) with
--with-ld=/usr/people/francois/local/bin/ld --with-gnu-ld
--with-as=/usr/people/francois/local/bin/as --with-gnu-as, but even
there, it does pick up the system ld:
> $ ../trunk/configure --prefix=/usr/people/francois/devel/irun --with-gmp=/usr/people/francois/local --enable-mapped-location --with-ld=/usr/people/francois/local/bin/ld --with-gnu-ld --with-as=/usr/people/francois/local/bin/as --with-gnu-as --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++
> checking build system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5
> checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5
> checking target system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5
> [...]
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> [...]
> *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
> target-libmudflap target-libffi target-zlib target-libjava target-libada gnattools zlib target-boehm-gc
> (Any other directories should still work fine.)
> [...]
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for as... as
> checking for dlltool... no
> checking for ld... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
I don't see how it can be cached, since my build directory is
perfectly clean when I start! config.log doesn't have much information
either:
configure:6439: checking for ar
configure:6455: found /usr/people/francois/local/bin/ar
configure:6465: result: ar
configure:6574: checking for as
configure:6590: found /usr/people/francois/local/bin/as
configure:6600: result: as
configure:6709: checking for dlltool
configure:6738: result: no
configure:6767: checking for ld
configure:6793: result: /usr/bin/ld
then a bit later:
configure:9015: checking for as
configure:9048: result: no
configure:9160: checking for as
configure:9176: found /usr/people/francois/local/bin/as
configure:9186: result: as
configure:9238: checking for dlltool
configure:9271: result: no
configure:9383: checking for dlltool
configure:9412: result: no
configure:9461: checking for ld
configure:9494: result: no
configure:9606: checking for ld
configure:9622: found /usr/people/francois/local/bin/ld
configure:9632: result: ld
In summary, I'm confused. The release notes at
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html say nothing of that issue, so
I assume I have made a mistake, but which?
Thanks,
FX
--
FX Coudert
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uccafco/