Re: broken configury, testing for 'ld'

[Branko Čibej <brane at xbc dot nu>]

I managed to work around this problem by confguring --with-gnu-ld 
--with-ld=/path/to/gnu/ld, and similarily for GNU as. It's not elegant, 
but it works.

Geoff Keating wrote:

> I get this on Solaris:
> 
> checking for ld used by GCC... ld
> checking if the linker (ld) is GNU ld... yes
> 
> because the toplevel Makefile has
> 
> LD = ld
> ...
> LD_FOR_TARGET = ` \
>   if [ -f $$r/ld/ld-new ] ; then \
>     echo $$r/ld/ld-new ; \
>   else \
>     if [ "$(host_canonical)" = "$(target_canonical)" ] ; then \
>       echo $(LD); \
>     else \
>        t='$(program_transform_name)'; echo ld | sed -e 's/x/x/' $$t ; \
>     fi; \
>   fi`
> 
> and then passes LD_FOR_TARGET as $LD to the libstdc++ configure.
> 
> Unfortunately, the ld used by the just-built GCC is /usr/ccs/bin/ld,
> not the ld in my path.
> 
> This causes the build to fail when libstdc++ tries to pass GNU ld
> options to Solaris ld.
> 
> Is this test really supposed to be checking for the ld used by GCC?
> If so, it should not look at $LD at all.  If not, it shouldn't claim
> to...
> 

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