Re: [PATCH] Re: ld testsuite breaks with latest GCC-4.0

[Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:43:26AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> If there is a specs file, configure.host should use that and only use
> -dumpspecs if it is not present.
> -dumpspecs dumps the built-in specs, not the ones it finds on the
> filesystem.
> This can make a difference if specs is hand edited.

Agreed. That is the exact scenario I was concerned about and alluded to up
thread.

> So, I think the patch should use ${CC} --print-file-name=specs,
> if that prints just specs, it should use ${CC} -dumpspecs,
> otherwise cat the specs file.
>   specs=`${CC} --print-file-name=specs`
>   { if [ x"$specs" = xspecs ]; then ${CC} -dumpspecs; else cat "$specs"; fi; } \
>   | egrep ...

Yes. That would seem saner and definitely more robust. I'll try to make a
new patch and test it but am running short on time right now.. so if someone
beats me to it.. go right ahead. Also, prolly best to remove that ia64-aix cruft
as confirmed by Jim Wilson.

Thanks
Greg