Re: IRIX 6 configuration sets MD_EXEC_PREFIX

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

  In message <199809162041.NAA26350@smtp.earthlink.net>you write:
  > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:
  >      
  >     Jim> I added the MD_EXEC_PREFIX definition because I got tired of
  >     Jim> responding to bug reports from people who had a program named
  >     Jim> `as' or `ld' in their path which was not an assembler or
  >     Jim> linker respectively. 
  >     Jim>
  >     Jim> <More sensible things about finding linkers deleted>
  >     Jim>
  >     Jim> I think all native toolchains should define MD_EXEC_PREFIX to
  >     Jim> avoid these problems if GNU as/GNU ld are not required.
  > 
  > I thought you might say that.  That's a reasonable point of view, but
  > one that should probably be debated and decided, and then instituted
  > across the board, if so.  One of my points (badly articulated,
  > perhaps) was that it seems odd to have GCC behave differently on MIPS
  > than on other targets.
The MIPS is not particularly special in this regard.  Other ports define
MD_EXEC_PREFIX so that gcc can find the assembler, linker, crt0.o, etc.

jeff