* libtool.m4 (LD): Append -melf* option to LD on IRIX with GNU ld.

* ltconfig: Handle it.
* ltcf-cxx.sh: Use with_gnu_ld passed as a shell variable instead of
auto-detecting it.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-02-19  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
+
+	* libtool.m4 (LD): Append -melf* option to LD on IRIX with GNU ld.
+	* ltconfig: Handle it.
+	* ltcf-cxx.sh: Use with_gnu_ld passed as a shell variable instead of
+	auto-detecting it.
+
 2003-02-19  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
 
 	* ltcf-cxx.sh: Replace $linker_flags with $compiler_flags wherever

libtool.m4

@@ -144,6 +144,19 @@ case $host in
   # Find out which ABI we are using.
   echo '[#]line __oline__ "configure"' > conftest.$ac_ext
   if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile); then
+   if test "$lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld" = yes; then
+    case `/usr/bin/file conftest.$ac_objext` in
+    *32-bit*)
+      LD="${LD-ld} -melf32bsmip"
+      ;;
+    *N32*)
+      LD="${LD-ld} -melf32bmipn32"
+      ;;
+    *64-bit*)
+      LD="${LD-ld} -melf64bmip"
+      ;;
+    esac
+   else
     case `/usr/bin/file conftest.$ac_objext` in
     *32-bit*)
       LD="${LD-ld} -32"
@@ -155,6 +168,7 @@ case $host in
       LD="${LD-ld} -64"
       ;;
     esac
+   fi
   fi
   rm -rf conftest*
   ;;

ltcf-cxx.sh

@@ -68,11 +68,16 @@ if { ac_try='${CC-c++} -E conftest.$ac_ext'; { (eval echo \"$ac_try\") 1>&5; (ev
   # Set up default GNU C++ configuration
 
   # Check if GNU C++ uses GNU ld as the underlying linker, since the
-  # archiving commands below assume that GNU ld is being used.
-  if eval "`$CC -print-prog-name=ld` --version 2>&1" | \
-      egrep 'GNU ld' > /dev/null; then
-    with_gnu_ld=yes
-
+  # archiving commands below assume that GNU ld is being used.  The
+  # assumption here is that the linker is going to be the same as that
+  # used by the C compiler.  For the purposes of GCC, this is ok, but
+  # if someone uses g++ along with a non-GNU C compiler that doesn't
+  # use GNU ld, we may lose.  This is ok for the toolchain tree, since
+  # the only users of ltcf-cxx.sh are libstdc++-v3 and libjava,
+  # anyway, and those use both gcc and g++, so the settings are bound
+  # to be the same.
+
+  if test "$with_gnu_ld" = yes; then
     archive_cmds='$CC -shared -nostdlib $predep_objects $libobjs $deplibs $postdep_objects $compiler_flags ${wl}-soname $wl$soname -o $lib'
     archive_expsym_cmds='$CC -shared -nostdlib $predep_objects $libobjs $deplibs $postdep_objects $compiler_flags ${wl}-soname $wl$soname ${wl}-retain-symbols-file $wl$export_symbols -o $lib'
 
@@ -92,7 +97,6 @@ if { ac_try='${CC-c++} -E conftest.$ac_ext'; { (eval echo \"$ac_try\") 1>&5; (ev
       whole_archive_flag_spec=
     fi
   else
-    with_gnu_ld=no
     wlarc=
 
     # A generic and very simple default shared library creation
@@ -110,7 +114,6 @@ if { ac_try='${CC-c++} -E conftest.$ac_ext'; { (eval echo \"$ac_try\") 1>&5; (ev
 
 else
   with_gcc=no
-  with_gnu_ld=no
   wlarc=
 fi
 

ltconfig

@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ irix5* | irix6*)
     version_type=linux
   else
     version_type=irix
-  if
+  fi
   version_type=irix
   need_lib_prefix=no
   need_version=no