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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++,gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: Question about using gas with g++/gcc
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Date: 12 Jan 90 04:35:21 GMT
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In <1990Jan12.014253.29048@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
(J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> In the g++ docs, it says:
> "If GAS and GNU LD work for your machine, *use them*."
> But how do I get gas to be my default assembler for building gcc and
> g++?  I didn't see any obvious ways, or even any pain-in-the-butt ways.

GCC looks in $(libdir)/gcc-* for the preprocessor, assembler, c compiler
and loader.  If it doesn't find what it wants there it will invoke
what it needs without the prefix.  $(libdir) is defined in the
Makefile.  To get it to invoke gas, have gas installed as $(libdir)/gcc-as.

> (Well, I could ln -s /usr/local/lib/gas /bin/as :-)

I adopted the symbolic link solution:
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 src            10 Dec 15 00:11 gcc-as -> ../bin/gas

Dave
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