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Re: 3.4/3.5 PATCH: install.texi updates for IRIX 5/6
- From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>
- To: Rainer Orth <ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 06:32:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: 3.4/3.5 PATCH: install.texi updates for IRIX 5/6
- References: <16512.13451.649359.326218@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> The IRIX 5 and 6 specific instructions in install.texi are partially out of
> date. The following patch fixes this.
Great! Thanks very much for doing this. Thanks especially for
remembering to document the problems wrt various MIPSpro versions,
'fraid I dropped the ball on that one.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the IRIX 5 changes.
Out of curiosity:
> +To enable debugging under IRIX 5, you must use GNU binutils 2.15 or
> +later, and use the @option{--with-gnu-as} and @option{--with-gnu-ld}
> +@command{configure} options when configuring GCC@. You need to use GNU
> +@command{ar} and @command{nm}, also distributed with GNU binutils.
Why is GNU ld needed for debugging when using IRIX 5, but not when
using o32 on IRIX 6? It looks from the way the config files are
organised that --with-gnu-as --without-gnu-ld will still bring
in the debugging #defines in iris5gas.h.
Richard