target/5505: Doubts about a patch for OSF

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Fine.  Instead of patching the whole machine, it should be sufficient to
> just drop a copy of the patched ld in
> $prefix/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-dec-osf5.1/3.0.4/ld.

The machine isn't operated by myself, unfortunately.  I have to wait for a
planned downtime tomorrow.  Then, the machine will be patched.

[...]
> I've re-bootstrapped GCC 3.0.4 20020129 with no regressions compared to
> 3.0.2 20010921, and this version still creates a working CLN 1.1.4 which
> passes make check.  I've even tried to drop the Tru64 UNIX V5.1 ld (before
> any patches) into the gcc tree as mentioned above and rebuilt CLN, which
> keeps working.  This may mean that ld isn't the culprit or the error only
> happens when linking libstdc++.

Thanks for this piece of information.  After our last email I had grown
suspicious, too, about ld being the only reason for this failure...

Regards
    -richy.
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