On 6 August 2011 13:46, Marc Glisse wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed recently that unless I specify --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld or > --with-gnu-ld, the configuration system doesn't notice that I am using the > GNU binutils (HAVE_GNU_LD is set to 0). Is that done on purpose so I can > more easily use another linker ? > > On Linux that means I am missing a few extra features. Huh, I had misunderstood "Same as --with-gnu-as" at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html#with-gnu-ld to mean that --with-gnu-ld had no effect except on the four platforms mentioned by the --with-gnu-as docs. I wonder how many GCC installations I've done over the past few years where I got that wrong ...
