Problems while installing egcs-19981130 with binutils 2.9.1

[Joerg Pietschmann]

Hi,

after installing binutils 2.9.1 I run into problems with egcs.

First, `configure' passes `-Wl,-bbigtoc' in LDFLAGS, which is not
recognized by GNU ld ('Unrecognized BFD target: bigtoc').

Second, i got the following:

$ make bootstrap
[...]
Bootstrap comparison failure!
cp/sig.o differs

Indeed:

$ cmp cp/sig.o stage2/cp/sig.o
cp/sig.o stage2/cp/sig.o differ: char 49155, line 201

This appears to be some bfd malfunction in gas:

$ objdump --disassemble stage2/cp/sig.o > dump2     
BFD: .../sig.o: Unrecognized storage class 0 for *UND* symbol `'
[very often repeated]

The file gcc/cp/sig.o disassembly dump is ok.
The disassembled files don't show any significant differences.

Do you recommend to uninstall binutils as soon as possible?

J.Pietschmann
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