binutils-2.16 mips-sgi-irix6.5 ld not recognizing OPTIONAL symbols

[Albert Chin]

I built gcc-3.4.4 with binutils-2.16 as/ld on mips-sgi-irix6.5 and
tried to link xemacs-21.4.17. The result was this error:
  /usr/lib32/libpthread.so: undefined reference to `_mpi_sgi_init'

  $ nm /usr/lib32/libpthread.so | grep _mpi_sgi_init
  [217]   |         0|       0|FUNC |GLOB |OPTIONAL |UNDEF |_mpi_sgi_init

I take it binutils-2.16 ld on mips-sgi-irix6.5 doesn't support
OPTIONAL symbols yet? Anyone working on this? Anyone know the status
of GNU ld on mips-sgi-irix6.5?

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)