GNU Binutils not auto-detected

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 6 August 2011 13:46, Marc Glisse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed recently that unless I specify --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld or
> --with-gnu-ld, the configuration system doesn't notice that I am using the
> GNU binutils (HAVE_GNU_LD is set to 0). Is that done on purpose so I can
> more easily use another linker ?
>
> On Linux that means I am missing a few extra features.

Huh, I had misunderstood "Same as --with-gnu-as" at
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html#with-gnu-ld to mean that
--with-gnu-ld had no effect except on the four platforms mentioned by
the --with-gnu-as docs.  I wonder how many GCC installations I've done
over the past few years where I got that wrong ...