problems with gcc powerpc cross compiler

[James Farlow]

Hello,

I am trying to compile gcc/newlib in a cross-compiler configuration and
I keep being at odds with the -mrelocatable-lib option. I have tried 
several different versions of newlib and gnu as/gcc, and no matter what
I do, the gcc compiler seems to want to generate relocations 'as' says 
are illegal with the -mrelocatable option(apparently passed through via 
-mrelocatable-lib), but there seems to be no way (in newlib anyway) to 
disable the -mrelocatable option for powerpc. Are the config scripts 
wrong and I should just purge the generated makefiles of
-mrelocatable-lib,
or is there something I am missing? The .mh file for ppc seems to imply
we always should use -mrelocatable - yet as and gcc seem to be at odds 
with each other.