Have GCC uses NASM as the assembler?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 28 December 2017 at 22:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>>> We are trying to build a library on Solaris 11.3. We installed GCC 5.4
>>> so we have an update compiler available.
>>
>> Did you follow the recommendations at
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#ix86-x-solaris210 ?
>> "It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler"
>
> Thanks Mark.
>
> No, we did not follow it. I was not aware it existed.
>
> So the problem becomes, how do we tell GCC to use /usr/gnu/bin/as when
> it is driving the build process.

That's answered at the link above.

"To use GNU as, configure with the options --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas. It may be necessary to configure with
--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld to guarantee use of Sun
ld."