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[RFA] gdb/config/powerpc/aix.mh LDFLAGS
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- Subject: [RFA] gdb/config/powerpc/aix.mh LDFLAGS
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:41:10 -0400
- CC: kevinb at cygnus dot com, nsd at cygnus dot com
Kevin, Nick,
I was trying a build on a host that used xcoffread.c.... and I ran
into this. The gnu linker doesn't understand the bigtoc option, and
gdb doesn't build.
Elena
2001-07-23 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
* config/powerpc/aix.mh (MH_LDFLAGS): Don't set these, the Gnu linker
doesn't understand them.
Index: aix.mh
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/config/powerpc/aix.mh,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 aix.mh
--- aix.mh 2000/11/09 09:49:00 1.3
+++ aix.mh 2001/07/23 20:38:52
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ NATDEPFILES= fork-child.o infptrace.o in
# MH_CFLAGS = -bnodelcsect
# gdb is too big for all of its external symbols to fit in a small TOC
-MH_LDFLAGS = -Wl,-bbigtoc
+# It looks like the GNU linker doesn't understand the -bbigtoc switch.
+# This switch may be needed for some vendor compilers.
+# MH_LDFLAGS = -Wl,-bbigtoc