AIX 5.3 gcc 4.1.2 bootstrap error

[Brian Dessent]

Jonathan Saxton wrote:
> 
> I had lots of difficulty building 4.2.2 on AIX 5.2.  Problem turned out to
> be binutils.  I found that I had to delete binutils altogether.  It was not
> sufficient to use the make options to specify the native versions of ld and

For what it's worth gcc documents this requirement:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-ibm-aix>

quote:

> The native as and ld are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX 4 and 
> required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L. The GNU Assembler reports that it 
> supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to utilize weak 
> symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU Assembler and 
> Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap GCC. The native 
> AIX tools do interoperate with GCC.

Brian