How to force ld to find crti.o

[Dan Kegel]

Roman Duka wrote back in January:
 > [for sparc:]
> so far i i used --with-sysroot to build binutils-2.14, install 
> glibc-2.3.2 headers, bootstrap gcc-3.4-20040121, and while building 
> glibc-2.3.2 this is what i get:
> 
> <stdin>: Assembler messages:
> <stdin>:2: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `1'
> <stdin>:2: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `1'
> <stdin>:2: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `1'
> <stdin>:2: Error: unrecognized symbol type ""
> <stdin>:2: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `1'
> <stdin>:2: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `1'
> <stdin>:2: Error: Illegal operands: PC-relative operand can't be a constant
> make[4]: *** [/home/roman/crosstool/build/glibc-build/io/rtld-open.os] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/roman/crosstool/build/glibc-2.3.2/io'  ...
> 
> have you seen this sort of thing before? 

I just ran into this myself.  I'm pretty sure it's fixed in newer binutils.
I'm about to try binutils-2.14.92 for the first time, I bet that'll do.

BTW one of the things that's delaying the release of crosstool-0.28
is I'm trying to get most architectures building with gcc-3.4.0.
- Dan

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