Re: GDB cvs won't build on AIX 4.1

Alexandre Oliva
2002-02-04T12:15:31Z

On Feb 4, 2002, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> wrote:

>> Perhaps we should hard-code the link option -bbigtoc for gdb to
>> link properly on AIX?

> That was the problem. See gdb/294.
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=294

Thanks for the pointer. Would it be pointless then to post a patch
that detected which version of GCC is in use, and whether the linker
it uses accepts -bbigtoc?

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