Re: NM and AR not being used?

[Georg Schwarz <geos at epost dot de>]

Thanks for your reply!

> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> > env AR=/usr/local/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin/AR
> > NM=/usr/local/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin/nm
> > RANLIB=/usr/local/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin/ranlib CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
> > /usr/people/schwarz/gcc-3.4.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local
> > --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-as=/usr/local/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin/as
> > --with-ld=/usr/local/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin/ld
> > --enable-languages=c,c++,ada
> 
> The easiest way to make this work is to build and install binutils using 
> the exact same prefix that you build and install gcc with.  If you do 

that is unpack binutils into /usr/people/schwarz/ in this case?

> this, then gcc will automatically find and use the installed binutils. 
> You won't need the --with-as= and --with-ld= configure options.
> 

> Normally, only cross compilers need to worry about the value of AR/NM, 
> and if you are building a cross compiler, you can't use a bootstrap 
> rule.  You have to use make all.  If you do a make all-gcc, you will see 
> that gcc uses the AR/NM that you specified, because the toplevel 
> Makefile passes down the proper values for them.
> 
> However, when you use the bootstrap rule, the toplevel Makefile isn't 
> passing down the values of AR/NM, so gcc doesn't use the ones you 
> specified.  This doesn't seem like an serious problem, so I'd suggest 
> filing a bugzilla bug report.  You can work around it by setting your 

since you seem to understand the problem much better than I do, could
you please file that bug report? Thanks.

> path before building gcc.
> 
> The errors you get are because the GNU tools don't support all of the 
> features of the SGI tools.  These errors should be pretty harmless.  It 
> is probably better to use GNU/SGI tools consistently to avoid these 
> errors though.
> -- 
> Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
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