On 2018-01-04 04:43 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 28 December 2017 at 22:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > > > > We are trying to build a library on Solaris 11.3. We installed GCC 5.4 > > > > > so we have an update compiler available. > > > > > > > > Did you follow the recommendations at > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#ix86-x-solaris210 ? > > > > "It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler" > > > > > > Thanks Mark. > > > > > > No, we did not follow it. I was not aware it existed. > > > > > > So the problem becomes, how do we tell GCC to use /usr/gnu/bin/as when > > > it is driving the build process. > > > > That's answered at the link above. > > > > "To use GNU as, configure with the options --with-gnu-as > > --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas. It may be necessary to configure with > > --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld to guarantee use of Sun > > ld." > > Thanks. Its kind of a moot point because the assembler is down level. > It could not assemble SHA even if we could somehow point GCC to it. > > But the suggested solution does not scale. We cannot ask thousands of > users to build a compiler. That's why we wanted to ask GCC to use a > different assembler in one place. Without `--with-as` GCC just search `as` in $PATH. You may alter the $PATH (maybe in a shell script wrapping GCC) so GCC would find the `ld` you want. -- Xi Ruoyao <ryxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
