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Re: PATCH: Fix gcc/configure.in (Re: configure script breakage)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:42:38PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:32:04AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > # grep gnu_ld gcc/config.gcc
> > > > # gnu_ld_flag Either yes or no depending on whether GNU ld was
> > > > # gnu_ld Set to yes or no depending on whether the target
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > Lots of config.gcc targets which only have GNU ld don't set it.
> > > Are you going to fix them all?
> >
> > Parts of gcc configure depend on gnu_ld. It should be properly set in
> > any case.
>
> What parts? I see it only used in config.gcc itself, so for the arches which
> never set it nor test it it doesn't matter (most of the arches).
> 3.3 is not development branch, thus I don't think it needs to be set
> properly in any case.
I never liked running ld to check its feature. It doesn't work too
well with canadian cross compiling. Since config.gcc is supposed to
set gnu_ld, why not use it.
H.J.