collect2 bug in 3.3.2 on Tru64 UNIX 5.1

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Wed Apr 14 12:10:00 GMT 2004


Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> writes:

> You might be able to work around the problem by installing GNU ld (in 
> the binutils package) and configuring --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as.  In 
> that case, GNU ld should create the constructors, and collect2 won't 
> need the second problematic link, and hence I would expect the above 
> command to work.

This doesn't work because neiter GNU as nor GNU ld have been ported to
Tru64 UNIX, which uses ECOFF, not ELF.  The alpha-ecoff port seems to have
been started, but when I tried a bootstrap, gas failed to assemble the very
first file passed to it.

	Rainer



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