Re: xgcc: installation problem, cannot exec `../stage1/collect2': Arg list too long

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

  In message <20000618150214.A21136@wolery.cumb.org>you write:
  > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:03:55PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
  > > xgcc: installation problem, cannot exec `../stage1/collect2':
  > >       Arg list too long
  > > 
  > > Any thoughts in getting around this one?  This looks like a system limit.
  > > Maybe we need a library of gcc objects?
  > 
  > Putting the back end in a library seems like a good idea to me,
  > never mind whether or not we're really hitting command line length limits.
  > Here's a patch - has been bootstrapped on i386-linux, testsuite is running
  > now.  Please let us know if it solves your problem.
  > 
  > Note this inflicts ordering constraints on cc1* link lines; $(BACKEND)
  > has to come after the front end objects.  Also, toplev.o has to be
  > left out of the library since it contains main.
  > 
  > It occurred to me, while generating this patch, that we could easily
  > have nonrecursive builds within the gcc directory by moving all the logic
  > from subdirs' Makefile.in to their Make-lang.in.  The objc directory is
  > already like that.  I bet the build system would get significantly simpler.
  > I may try to do this in a successor patch.
  > 
  > zw
  > 
  > 
  > 	* Makefile.in: Remove toplev.o from OBJS.  Add rule to make
  > 	libbackend.a; add libbackend.a to STAGESTUFF.  Add BACKEND
  > 	variable.  Use BACKEND when linking cc1, not OBJS.  Add BACKEND
  > 	to VOL_FILES.
  > ch:
  > 	* Make-lang.in (cc1chill): Depend on $(BACKEND), not stamp-objlist.
  > 	* Makefile.in (cc1chill): Link with $(BACKEND).  Define BACKEND,
  > 	eliminate C_OBJS (was commented out), OBJS, OBJDEPS.
  > cp:
  > 	* Make-lang.in (cc1plus): Depend on $(BACKEND), not stamp-objlist.
  > 	* Makefile.in: Add C_OBJS, BACKEND; delete OBJS, OBJDEPS.
  > 	(cc1plus): Link with $(BACKEND) and $(C_OBJS).
  > f:
  > 	* Make-lang.in (f771): Depend on $(BACKEND), not stamp-objlist.
  > 	* Makefile.in: Add BACKEND; delete OBJS, OBJDEPS.
  > 	(f771): Link with $(BACKEND).
  > java:
  > 	* Make-lang.in (jc1, jv-scan): Depend on $(BACKEND), not stamp-objlist.
  > 	* Makefile.in: Add BACKEND; delete OBJS, OBJDEPS.
  > 	(jc1): Link with $(BACKEND).
  > 	(jv-scan): Depend on version.o, not all of $(OBJS) or $(BACKEND).
  > objc:
  > 	* Make-lang.in (cc1obj): Link with $(BACKEND).
It looks good to me.  

Please install this patch.
Thanks,
jeff