If you use gnu ld or as to build GCC, you get extra features in gcc itself. There's a few bugzilla PRs on this, and a lot of emails on the mailing list. What I don't see, however, is how I can have configure detect the usage of GNU binutils automatically. In other words, without explicitly passing in --with-gnu-ld/as, I don't get the features in question. Is there a way to do this? Or, is there a way to fix configure so that it does some test without requiring the option? Also, is there a way to do this for a cross compiler?
