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Re: Building gcc with gas on SGI IRIX5.3

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From: Ives Aerts
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <5cqtmg$kg1@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, gah@u.washington.edu writes:
> I would like to know the answer, too, as I will build a cross-compiler
> with --target-mips-sgi-irix, and this bug may appear there, also.

The problem is a patch for the OS which installs a new linker. This
new linker is pickier about the .o files produced by gas which are,
apparantly, not 100% OK.

The solution is to install a fake `ld' somewhere in your path that
says:

  #!/bin/sh
  /bin/ld -old_ld $*

Cheers,
-Ives
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Date: 1997/01/31
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