egcs build failure on hpux --with-gnu-as and vendor cc

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 001201bde0d6$bca78400$0100000a@celery.metainfo.com >you write:
  > I usually include the relavent part of the build when reporting such a
  > problem, but it was late and I wasn't thinking.  If you want me to, I can
  > probably run another localized build to reproduce this, but it takes a few
  > hours (slow, slow box).
We need this information not providing it just ends up making everyone
guess, which is a waste of time.

  > hpux ld doesn't have the offending module, and the offending symbol as
  > 'alloca'.  No preceding _underscore on it.
gcc never generates calls to alloca since they're handled as a builtin.

If you are getting an undefined reference to alloca it means you have
some module built with HP's compiler when the build process was not
expecting any module to be built with HP's compiler.


jeff