On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:28:36PM +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Op Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:53:50 -0500, schreef Albert Chin: > > > Why are you using binutils? You don't need it. We've bootstrapped GCC > > 3.4.2 on Solaris with with Sun's as/ld. > > Really? The first time I tried it without --with-gnu-ld, but then the > bootstrap process halted much earlier. I don't recall the exact error but > when I looked it up on Google I read something along the lines 'of course > you need to use --with-gnu-ld on Solaris otherwise it won't work.' On Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6, GNU as is a good idea. For any version of Solaris after that, I don't see the benefit. We've never needed it on Solaris 7+. -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
