malformed archive on alpha

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> Hi --
> 
> I am (and have been) trying to build CVS egcs on alpha-redhat-linux with
> several versions of binutils. Using versions of binutils since ~2.8.1.0.25,
> I have been seeing problems like this one with egcs+binutils-2.9:
> 
> gcc -g -O2  -o makeinfo  makeinfo.o multi.o ../lib/libtxi.a  -lz 
> ../lib/libtxi.a: could not read symbols: Malformed archive
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [makeinfo] Error 1
> 
> As I understand it, there are problems on alpha that require binutils
> version >= 2.9, so I have a bit of a chicken and egg problem here.
> 
> Anyone else having this problem?
> 

I have a binary binutils for alpha running glibc 2.0.7.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)