EGCS build failure on AIX 4.2

[Andrey Slepuhin]

On 06-Apr-98 David Edelsohn wrote:
>       I also notice that you configure EGCS using
> 
> --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld
> 
> Are GNU as and GNU ld really primary in your path?  Do you really have
> those installed?  Because of changes in AIX, GNU ld may not work correctly
> on AIX 4.2, so I would recommend against using it.
> 
>       My guess is that if you configured for AIX ld and really used the
> AIX linker, the build work succeed.

As I remember, official gnu ld (2.8.1) doesn't work correctly on AIX4.2.
However, problem was fixed in development snapshots. Ian Lance Tailor
sent a patch to 2.8.1 sources to egcs mailing list (letter from 9 Oct).
But I still had problems with complicated C++ code, this cause me
to look more closely at AIX ld+collect2 solution, which now seems
to be stable (except some problems with shared libraries+rtti+exceptions).

Andrey.