On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
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 ...
The --with-gnu-as documentation is lying too (even if you replace sparc
with *). The differences are negligible, but they exist.
--
Marc Glisse
