PATCH RFC: Remove fork from collect2

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mar 19, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Caroline Tice wrote:
> I believe your patch broke the bootstrap on powerpc-apple-darwin.  I 
> downloaded the most recent sources
> and attempted to bootstrap them.  It fails with:
>
> stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/local/powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0/bin/   -g 
> -O2 -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wold-style-definition 
> -Wno-variadic-macros -Werror -fno-common   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o 
> Tcollect2 \
>         collect2.o tlink.o intl.o version.o libcpp.a 
> ../libiberty/libiberty.a  -liconv
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> restFP
> saveFP
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [collect2] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>
>
> After some investigation, I found that the symbols restFP and saveFP 
> are  coming into libiberty.a from
> pex-unix.o.  By replacing libiberty/pex-unix.c with an older version 
> of pex-unix.c (from before you applied
> your patch), the problem goes away.  I haven't had the chance to 
> investigate this further yet, but I
> wanted to mention it.
>
> ctice% nm -o ../libiberty/libiberty.a | grep restFP
> ../libiberty/libiberty.a:pex-unix.o:         U restFP
> ctice% nm -o ../libiberty/libiberty.a | grep saveFP
> ../libiberty/libiberty.a:pex-unix.o:         U saveFP
> ctice% nm -o ../libiberty/pex-unix.o | grep saveFP
> ../libiberty/pex-unix.o:         U saveFP
> ctice% nm -o ../libiberty/pex-unix.o | grep restFP
> ../libiberty/pex-unix.o:         U restFP

Actually this is an issue with Apple versus FSF libgcc and the name of 
the
function which saves/restores the FP so to resolve this issue either
the FSF's gcc has to have the functions in Darwin's libgcc or have 
libiberty
be built like the rest of the compiler, in each stage.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
pinskia@physics.uc.edu