egcs 1.1b installation successful (except for some linker probs)

["Sean Murphy" <sean dot murphy at Teltec dot DCU dot IE>]

Hi,

As requested in the installation instructions for egcs, I'm reporting a 
successful installation of egcs 1.1b on a Solaris 2.5 sun sparc ultra 
1.

One problem I did note, which is probably known and obvious to 
those of you working on egcs is that I am now restricted to using 
one linker, unlike my installation of gcc 2.8.1

My installation of gcc 2.8.1 was compiled using the sun supplied 
linker. At a later date, I downloaded and installed the gnu linker 
(from the binutils 2.9.1 distribution), since it gives more detailed 
information when the linkage is unsuccessful. I was able to use both 
linkers at will, and switch between them easily.

When compiling egcs I used the sun linker again - for no particular 
reason (in fact, I didn't really think about it). When I recompiled the 
project I am working on, the compilation process was successful, 
but the (GNU) linker reported "Bad value" in the egcs libgcc.a file. I 
switched back to the sun linker for my project - I did a make, and I 
found some undefined symbols - these arose from the gcc 2.8.1 
object files - when I did a completely clean make and using the sun 
linker, everything worked fine. I did a completely clean make 
again, but this time I used the Gnu linker, and just got the same error 
as last time.

At the moment, I haven't got the time to see what happens if I 
recompile the entire egcs distribution and use the gnu linker.

While I'm on this list, I've got a question, which is not immediately 
obvious to me from the egcs website - how does the development 
of egcs relate to the development of gcc? Have the gcc 
development efforts been diverted to egcs, or are there groups of 
people working on both projects? I'm just interested as a keen gcc 
user.

Regards,
Sean.

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