GNU Binutils not auto-detected

[Marc Glisse]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> 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 ...

The --with-gnu-as documentation is lying too (even if you replace sparc 
with *). The differences are negligible, but they exist.

-- 
Marc Glisse