From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12016 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2012 17:47:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 11761 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Nov 2012 17:47:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_VIA_APNIC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from comm.purplecow.org (HELO comm.purplecow.org) (210.87.62.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:47:40 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from comm.purplecow.org ([127.0.0.1]) by comm.purplecow.org (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0MDS00CAKS3D2810@comm.purplecow.org> for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:47:37 +1100 (EST) Received: from comm.purplecow.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=comm.purplecow.org) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:47:37 +1100 Received: from [66.103.52.207] by comm.purplecow.org (mshttpd); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:47:37 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke To: Eric Botcazou Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca, iant@google.com, jwakely.gcc@gmail.com Message-id: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:47:00 -0000 Subject: Re: gcc 4.7.2 fails to bootstrap in stage 1 In-reply-to: <193347148.JW0atg5D4l@polaris> References: <1644592.hNC6Drk1kz@polaris> <193347148.JW0atg5D4l@polaris> 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: 2012-11/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 > If GNU as in your PATH, --with-gnu-as is sufficient; otherwise, you > need to > use --with-as=/usr/local/bin/gas (and --with-gnu-as is superfluous). > > I suspect that GNU ld is in your PATH and conflicts with > --without-gnu-ld, so > you need to remove it from your PATH or use --with-ld=[...]. ah ha .. well I want to use the Sun provided linker as there were long standing problems with GNU ld in the Solaris world. Not sure if I can dig up the bugs but /usr/ccs/bin/ld is supposed to work perfectly. The assembler however is another matter and I will try your changes. dc ps: thank you once again