This is a "bonus" optional patch which adds ar, ranlib, as and ld to the 
ptx port. This is not proper binutils; ar and ranlib are just linked to 
the host versions, and the other two tools have the following functions:

* nvptx-as is required to convert the compiler output to actual valid
   ptx assembly, primarily by reordering declarations and definitions.
   Believe me when I say that I've tried to make that work in the
   compiler itself and it's pretty much impossible without some really
   invasive changes.
* nvptx-ld is just a pseudo linker that works by concatenating ptx
   input files and separating them with nul characters. Actual linking
   is something that happens later, when calling CUDA library functions,
   but existing build system make it useful to have something called
   "ld" which is able to bundle everything that's needed into a single
   file, and this seemed to be the simplest way of achieving this.

There's a toplevel configure.ac change necessary to make ar/ranlib 
useable by the libgcc build. Having some tools built like this has some 
precedent in t-vmsnative, but as Thomas noted it does make feature tests 
in gcc's configure somewhat ugly (but everything works well enough to 
build the compiler). The alternative here is to bundle all these files 
into a separate nvptx-tools package which users would have to download - 
something that would be nice to avoid.

These tools currently require GNU extensions - something I probably 
ought to fix if we decide to add them to the gcc build itself.


Bernd