On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, NightStrike <nightstrike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? I forgot to add, does this get automatically set if you build binutils in tree?