[Bug other/123841] [16 regression] Failed bootstrap (Error: invalid operands (.text and .text.unlikely sections) for `-') since r16-7073

[ro at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123841

Rainer Orth <ro at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Rainer Orth <ro at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE from comment #11)
> >> I obviously found the whole set of with_gnu_as/gas_flag/gas,
> >> with_gnu_ld/gnu_ld_flag/gnu_ld terribly confusing.  I thought I'd
> >> figured out, but apparently not.
> >
> > Maybe it would be good to reduce that set somehow afterwards?  I don't
> > know if it's just me who is confused here.
> 
> I wonder if we couldn't just check the assembler and linker used, either
> from PATH or specified with --with-as/--with-ld, just once and do away
> with the static gas=yes/gnu_ld=yes in config.gcc?
> 
> I'd better not touch that after the breakage I've just caused, though.

Alexandre, do you know what's the point behind all the static
gas=yes/gnu_ld=yes
in gcc/config.gcc?