testresults, linuxppc-2000, powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:14:57AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 
> I attempted a build on a Solaris-2.7 this morning but temporarily
> abandoned the idea: for a reason beyond my current understanding, GCC
> is mixing the kind of linkers it is using even if I *explicitly* tell
> it --with-gnu-ld=$HOME/gnu/bin/ld.  It starts with Sun's ld then
> suddenly switches to my locally installed GNU ld, then ends up
> complaining about unrecognized object format.  Icks.

This used to happen to me, too.  There seem to be too many places in GCC
(or maybe just one place that gets referenced a lot) where "host == solaris"
turns into "we must be using Sun ld".

I reported it once, and got the same thing I get every time I report a
buggy interaction between GCC and GNU ld:  gcc says it's a binutils problem,
binutils says it's a gcc problem.

For non-native-tools building, I use a unified GCC+binutils source tree,
and just use --with-gnu-ld (with no =pathname argument).  The configure
and build pick up on the presence of GNU ld sources living *right there*
and behave correctly, but if the sources aren't *right there* then weirdness
and pain happens later.  As long as it's unified, it's okay.

(Yes!  Four "and"s in a column, by coincidence.)


Phil

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