Hello! It looks that GP relative relocations do not fit anymore into GPREL16 reloc, so bootstrap on alpha hosts fail in stage2 with "relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against ...". I found no other solution but to pass --no-relax to linker in order to finish the bootstrap.
2011-05-02 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> PR target/47230 * configure.ac (alpha*-*-linux*): Use mh-alpha-linux. * configure: Regenerate. config/ChangeLog: 2011-05-02 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> PR target/47230 * mh-alpha-linux: New file. Patch was bootstrapped and regression tested with "GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.21" on alphaev68-pc-linux-gnu [1]. OK for 4.6. and 4.7 ? [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2011-05/msg00089.html Uros.
Index: configure.ac =================================================================== --- configure.ac (revision 173233) +++ configure.ac (working copy) @@ -1100,6 +1100,9 @@ *-interix*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-interix" ;; + alpha*-*-linux*) + host_makefile_frag="config/mh-alpha-linux" + ;; hppa*-hp-hpux10*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa-hpux10" ;; Index: configure =================================================================== --- configure (revision 173233) +++ configure (working copy) @@ -3672,6 +3672,9 @@ *-interix*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-interix" ;; + alpha*-*-linux*) + host_makefile_frag="config/mh-alpha-linux" + ;; hppa*-hp-hpux10*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa-hpux10" ;; Index: config/mh-alpha-linux =================================================================== --- config/mh-alpha-linux (revision 0) +++ config/mh-alpha-linux (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +# Prevent GPREL16 relocation truncation +LDFLAGS += -Wl,--no-relax +BOOT_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--no-relax