Paolo,

> The fix is mainly in the Ada tools, but there is a hitch: when you pass a
> response file to the linker by means of the -Wl,@ option, it is intercepted
> by collect2.  And collect2 creates another response file for the linker
> proper only if HAVE_GNU_LD is set to 1.  Now HAVE_GNU_LD is set to 1 only
> if you pass the --with-ld= or --with-gnu-ld switches at configure time; in
> particular, for systems where the use of the GNU linker is the only choice
> and thus hardcoded in config.gcc (e.g. Linux), you can end up with
> HAVE_GNU_LD set to 0, breaking the response file mechanism.  Hence the
> configure.ac hunk.
>
> Tested on i586-suse-linux and i686-pc-mingw32, OK for mainline and 4.7
> branch?
>
>
> 2012-05-18  Eric Botcazou  <ebotca...@adacore.com>
>
>       PR ada/52362
>       * config.gcc (i[34567]86-*-mingw* | x86_64-*-mingw*): Set gas and
>       gnu_ld variables to yes.
>       * configure.ac (HAVE_GNU_LD): Move to after config.gcc inclusion.
>       (HAVE_GNU_AS): Likewise.
>       * config.in: Regenerate.
>       * configure: Likewise.

What do you think about the above change?  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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