[Bug target/47230] [4.6/4.7 Regression] gcc fails to bootstrap on alpha in stage2 with "relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against ..."

[ubizjak at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47230

--- Comment #7 from Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> 2011-04-29 14:01:55 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> FWIW, I've never gotten that linkage failure on my alphaev6-linux machine, and
> last week's snapshots (4.7-20110423, 4.6-20110422, and 4.5-20110421) all
> bootstrapped fine on it.

Can you please post your configure command?

> I do have quite an old binutils (2.18.50.0.9-8.fc10 20080822).  I tried
> binutils-2.21 once, but it regressed some gcc tls test so I ditched it. 
> Haven't tried any other binutils versions yet.

I have reported this problem to binutils and it was fixed by rth in post-2.21
SVN.