Setting LD tool default to ld breaks configure check for ld used by GCC

[John David Anglin]

> > The toplevel configure script sets "LD=ld".  The ld used by the GCC check
> > in the opcodes directory has the line 
> > 
> >   test -z "$LD" && LD="$ac_prog"
> 
> The above line comes from libtool.m4.  If we set LD="" in the toplevel
> configure script, the libtool script then sets LD to ld program used by
> GCC.  However, this define for LD isn't a proper default.  So, I am
> wondering if the libtool script should also reset LD when LD=ld?

After some discussion of this matter on the libtool list, the conclusion
is that Cygnus configure shouldn't be setting LD and other similar defines
in native builds.  PR 9031 has more details.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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