GDB cvs won't build on AIX 4.1

[Andrew Cagney]

> 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?


The oposite!  See Peter Schauer's comment - it would solve the problem.

Andrew