Activating binutils

[Elias Pipping]

On May 1, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Upon further investigation, I see that the configure script  
> provided with binutils simply does not build gas on Darwin (i.e.  
> Mac OS X):
>
>   *-*-darwin*)
>     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gdb gprof"
>     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
>     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libgcj}"
>     ;;
>
> I do not know why they do this, or whether you would get a working  
> gas by simply taking it out of the noconfigdirs list. You could  
> give it a try and let us know.

judging by the manpages, Apple uses variants of as(1)[1] very  
different to
gnu's. (the same goes for ld(1) [2]) - gnu binutils's as/ld/... probably
can't handle Mach-O binaries and/or universal binaries.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ 
ManPages/man1/as.1.html
[2] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ 
ManPages/man1/ld.1.html


Regards,

Elias Pipping