BUG: Missing Global constructors on mips-sgi-irix5.3 (solved)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Achim Herwig wrote:
> I don't know if the term BUG is correct or "insufficient documentation" is
> more to the point. 

I would like to upgrade the documention, but we'd need ony of our
mips/irix maintainers to double-check that...

> In the "Host/Target specific installation notes for egcs" it says that
> one has to compile his/her own gas for IRIX 5.3 . Well, so I installed
> gas-970915 before egcs-1.1.2. Naturally, it brought its own nm with it.
>
> (It now occurs to me that this version of gas is quite old. As I solved the
> problem I don't want to check with an up-to-date version. I'm still
> wondering where I found and downloaded this one.)

...especially concerning the situation with current versions of binutils.

> The solution lies either in (a) correcting collect2 to use the OSes nm
> instead of a gnu one (b) telling people to rm or mv the gnu
> nm after installation (it's there twice: in $PREFIX/bin and in
> $PREFIX/mips-sgi-irix5.3/bin) or (c) making nm understand the binary format
> on IRIX5.3.

I have Cc:ed this message to Jim, who might be able to provide further
insights.

Jim, if you'd like to modify the install docs, simply go ahead!

Gerald
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