ld segfault on Solaris 8

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:28:36PM +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Op Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:53:50 -0500, schreef Albert Chin:
> 
> > Why are you using binutils? You don't need it. We've bootstrapped GCC
> > 3.4.2 on Solaris with with Sun's as/ld.
> 
> Really? The first time I tried it without --with-gnu-ld, but then the
> bootstrap process halted much earlier. I don't recall the exact error but
> when I looked it up on Google I read something along the lines 'of course
> you need to use --with-gnu-ld on Solaris otherwise it won't work.'

On Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6, GNU as is a good idea. For any version of
Solaris after that, I don't see the benefit. We've never needed it on
Solaris 7+.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)