>>>>> Ed S Peschko writes: Ed> which would be fine if the AIX linker works, but I'm getting segmentation Ed> faults when compiling perl out of the box, using the gcc-4.1.0 compiler Ed> provided.. I'm wondering if its the compiler, the linker, or both...
You have not provided information for anyone to help with that assessment. Ed> (ps - if I can't get ld to work with gcc, my guess is that it's Ed> going to be very painful to compile the freeware packages on AIX Ed> that are needed, considering that half of them expect gnu ld flags, Ed> not native ones... so I'm hoping that someone has gotten gnu ld to Ed> work out there.) Again, there is no reason to assume that this is a problem with the interaction between AIX ld and GCC. Also, many freeware packages test the configuration and do not assume GNU+Linux linker options. David