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Re: Patch for PR bootstrap/26872 (force use of GNU as)
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: sje at cup dot hp dot com (Steve Ellcey)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:57:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Patch for PR bootstrap/26872 (force use of GNU as)
> > > In the 4.1 timeframe, the GCC documentation was changed to say that GAS
> > > is required for GCC on hppa*-*-hpux* plaltforms. The gcc/configure.ac
> > > script was also changed to check for gas but config.gcc was not setting
> > > gas to yes by default. This patch rectifies that situation.
> > >
> > > Tested on hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11.
> >
> > Did you check what what happens if as is not gas?
>
> It depends on the configure options, if you do not specify
> "--with-gnu-as" then the gcc/configure script will check the assembler
> (as found with PATH or as specified with --with-as=...) to see if it is
> the GNU assembler and the configure script will exit with a 1 if it is
> not the GNU assembler (this behaviour is from the earlier patch). If
> you explicitly say "--with-gnu-as" then configure believes you and does
> not check the assembler to verify it, the compiler will generate code
> for the GNU assembler regardless of whether or not you actually have
> one.
Ok, please install the change on 4.1 and head.
Thanks,
Dave
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