How to tell if gcc uses GNU or Sun linker on Solaris?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> 
>> Is there any way to tell for certain if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker 
>> on Solaris, in a program? I would also like to do the same for the 
>> assembler, though that is less important to me.
> 
> $ gcc -print-prog-name=ld
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld
> 
> I don't know how reliable it is though, as on linux it usually just 
> prints "ld" without a path.
> 


Thanak you. I suspect that probably picks it up from the configure 
option. Perhaps I'll try building gcc without specifying a linker, and 
see what it returns.