Re: Linking very large application with GCC trunk on powerpc-linux leads to relocation error of crtbegin/end.o

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>>>>>> Andreas Jaeger writes:
>
> Andreas> I'm not a build machinery expert - if anybody has a patch, I'll happily test it,
> Andreas> I'm building on Linux/Powerpc64.
>
> Andreas> Adding the above line to rs6000/x-linux64 did not help me.  Btw.
> Andreas> we would need it for other files - like gnat1 - as well,
>
> 	Andreas Schwab removed x-linux64 yesterday because it was not
> referenced by any configuration.

Ah, that explains it.

>
> 	I know that the tmake_files are the wrong place, but just to test
> that it works, try adding the line to t-linux64, which is included in the
> powerpc64-linux configuration.
>
> 	Once we confirm the command is appended to LDFLAGS for executables
> that need it, we can figure out the correct Makefile fragment.

I added now to t-linux64:

cc1-dummy$(exeext) : override LDFLAGS += -Wl,--relax
cc1$(exeext) : override LDFLAGS += -Wl,--relax
gnat1$(exeext) : override LDFLAGS += -Wl,--relax

This gets me a bit further but I do get later a build failure in
configure:

checking for powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu-strip... strip
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu-gcc... /abuild/aj/gcc-tst/./gcc/xgcc -B/abuild/aj/gcc-tst/./gcc/ -B/opt/gcc/4.4-devel/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/opt/gcc/4.4-devel/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /opt/gcc/4.4-devel/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/include -isystem /opt/gcc/4.4-devel/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/abuild/aj/gcc-tst/powerpc64-suse-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1

Andreas
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