Jonathan Saxton wrote: > > I had lots of difficulty building 4.2.2 on AIX 5.2. Problem turned out to > be binutils. I found that I had to delete binutils altogether. It was not > sufficient to use the make options to specify the native versions of ld and For what it's worth gcc documents this requirement: <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-ibm-aix> quote: > The native as and ld are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX 4 and > required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L. The GNU Assembler reports that it > supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to utilize weak > symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU Assembler and > Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap GCC. The native > AIX tools do interoperate with GCC. Brian
