------- Comment #4 from bugzilla-gcc at thewrittenword dot com 2005-10-14 20:23 ------- Ok, not a binutils bug. Richard Sandiford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provided the solution. If GNU as is used with GNU ld, COMDAT group should be supported on this platform. However, if GNU as is used with MIPSpro ld, COMDAT group should _not_ be used. The problem is that GNU as supports it but the MIPSpro linker does not. As the autoconf test only tests the compiler, GCC tries to use it.
The current workaround is to set and export the following before 'make bootstrap': gcc_cv_as_comdat_group=no gcc_cv_as_comdat_group_percent=no -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24345
