[Bug bootstrap/11169] bootstrap failure after passing configure options

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------- Additional Comments From rearnsha@arm.com  2003-06-12 14:43 -------
Subject: Re:  bootstrap failure after passing 
 configure options

The problem here is more complex.  Unfortunately, arm-linux objects are 
marked as as soft-float even though they do in fact contain FPA 
instructions (more precisely they are not marked as hard-float, since 
not-marked => soft-float).  This becomes a problem  when you try to link 
together an object file that is built with -mfpu=fpa and one that was 
built without any -mfpu option, since the linker thinks (incorrectly) that 
the two are incompatible.

I see no real solution to this other than to disable the current test in 
the linker.  In the interim the best solution is to configure your 
compiler with --with-tune=xscale --with-arch=armv4t (which is the nearest 
combination of options to xscale that will allow production of binary 
objects that are backwards compatible).

R.