From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18531 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2008 14:41:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 18520 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Mar 2008 14:41:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:41:01 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jbcze-00083R-9W; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:40:46 +0000 Message-ID: <47DFD46E.9E699E4D@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:41:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Reply-To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Saxton CC: 'Ben Scurr' , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: AIX 5.3 gcc 4.1.2 bootstrap error References: <47B4375F.6010400@teamwpc.co.uk> <007901c88902$70a6ab10$381110ac@nycapt35k.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00171.txt.bz2 Jonathan Saxton wrote: > > I had lots of difficulty building 4.2.2 on AIX 5.2. Problem turned out to > be binutils. I found that I had to delete binutils altogether. It was not > sufficient to use the make options to specify the native versions of ld and For what it's worth gcc documents this requirement: quote: > The native as and ld are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX 4 and > required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L. The GNU Assembler reports that it > supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to utilize weak > symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU Assembler and > Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap GCC. The native > AIX tools do interoperate with GCC. Brian