aix, egcs, gnu ld

[Maarten Huisjes]

Hello,

I'm trying to bootstrap egcs 1.1.1 on AIX 4.2. I tried using the gnu binutils
2.9.1 gnu ld as linker but this fails while bootstrapping because the linker
is called with -Wl,-bbigtoc which is only know by the native aix linker. I
solved this by removing these flags from gcc/config/rs6000/x-aix41. The
resulting compiler seems to work fine.

Is there a reason why you should use native ld/as instead of the gnu
alternatives ? I read in a side remark on a different aix bug that the gnu ld
under aix is considered broken is this true ?


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