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I need help with a problem which I encountered while trying to build
gcc 2.3.3 with the following configuration:

--with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-minimal-bfd i386-sysv32 

(I also used a --prefix option which I left out of the above.) This
configuration was used for all of the build directories mentioned
below. I had to modify the configure.in script slightly for gas 2.0 -
it looked for a ho-sysv32.h file, which doesn't exist. I changed the
script so that *-*-sysv* gets the ho-sysv.h file.

Then I build the gcc target start.encap. No problem.
Then I build binutils 2.1. No problem.
Then I build ld 2.1 (with BFD 2.1). No problem.
Then I build rest.encap. Here's where I run into a problem.

While trying to compile enquire.c, the following errors occur:

crtstuff.s:7: Warning: unknown section attribute 'a'
crtstuff.s:7: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `,'.
crtstuff.s:14: Warning: unknown section attribute 'a'
crtstuff.s:14: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `,'.
gmake: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1

Apparently, the configuration combination i386-sysv and --with-gas
causes gcc to be built such that it uses the "default" assembler op
for starting the initialization code section, defined in crtstuff.c
as:

section	.ctors,"a",@progbits

However, gas only recognizes the section attribute letters bilnowx.
(Cf. function obj_coff_section in obj-coffbfd.h.) Unfortunately, I'm
not familiar with UNIX assembler details, so I don't know what these
various letters mean. (That's one of the things I love about UNIX...
I never had to know this stuff before!)

Without the --with-gas configuration option, the following assembler
op, defined in svr3.h, would have been used by gcc:

section	.ctors,"x"

I think I need to use --with-gas in order to get decent C++
debugging with gdb in my environment, which is derived from SysV3.2.
Is this correct? If so, how do I resolve this mismatch between gcc
and gas?

Thanks in advance for any help,

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Dan Muller              [ "So that's what an invisible barrier      ]
Banyan Systems Inc.     [   looks like!"  (the movie: Time Bandits) ]