Re: egcs (1.1.1) for BSD/OS 4.0

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

  In message <14043.13767.394972.821576@ballista.eng.us.uu.net>you write:
  > 
  >   Hi.  I've put together a few patches for getting egcs (originally
  > the 1.1.1 release) working properly on BSD/OS 4.0 systems (both x86
  > and sparc).
  > 
  >   Most of the stuff I have will be normal; patches to configure,
  > configure.in, config.guess, ltconfig, etc.  And, the addition of one
  > files in each gcc/config/arch dir...
  > 
  >   The one additional change I needed to get it to link against
  > dynamically shared libraries was that I needed to change the way
  > collect2 invoked ld.  On this system at least, the ld (which is a
  > modified GNU ld 2.8.1) behaves differently if you invoke it as
  > "/usr/bin/ld" instead of "ld".  I think it assumes it's a
  > cross-compiler when invoked with a full path, and the method it uses
  > to look for libraries changes.  The first place it looks after
  > finishing the -L args is in "/usr/bin/../lib/", instead of when
  > invoked as "ld" it looks in "/shlib/".  Looking this way causes it to
  > find the /usr/lib/libXX.a libs in preference to the (desired) shared
  > libraries in /shlib/libXX.so.
I would think a cleaner solution to this problem would be to change
LINK_SPEC and/or LIB_SPEC for your port.

Note you'll probably need to deal with the copyright assignment issues
before we could install the changes for BSD/OS 4.0.  I can't say for
certain without seeing the patches though.

See:

http://egcs.cygnus.com/contribute.html

jeff