Re: Fix for "libgloss uses STARTUP directives consistently"

[Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>]

Fred Fish wrote:
> 	* configure.in (gcc_cv_mips_libgloss_startup): When checking the
> 	installed mips linker scripts, match all installed copies, not just
> 	"idt.ld", which might not even be installed.  For example,
> 	mipsisa32-elf newlib installs only idt32.ld, idt64.ld, and cfe.ld.
> 	* configure: Regenerate.

Looking at current sources, I see that the mips port no longer uses the 
HAVE_MIPS_LIBGLOSS_STARTUP_DIRECTIVES macro, but the configure support 
is still there.  So the only fix appropriate for mainline is removing 
the config.in and configure.in support for this macro.

Are you asking for this change in gcc-3.3?  That is a tougher choice, 
since it is important not to break it.  Chris Demetrious made a comment 
about how all targets that did not have idt.ld had MIPS_ABI_DEFAULT 
defined to ABI_MEABI.  This does appear to be the case in gcc-3.3, and 
thus no fix seems to be necessary.

I don't see why you need this patch.

The patch does seem somewhat reasonable though.  Searching for all 
installed linker scripts looks like the right solution if there was a 
target that did not default to MIPS_ABI_DEFAULT=ABI_MEABI.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com