Re: Not compilable with all warnings enabled "... throws different exceptions" (Bug in GNU Binutils)

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Marc Waeckerlin <address@hidden> writes:

> > Before replying, I encourage you to read more about portability across
> > Unix hosts and about autoconf.
> 
> Does this mean, there are autoconf macros defined in the binutils package, 
> that I could include in my configure.in script and that setup the macros 
> correctly?

Yes, although you can find the definition in the gcc package.  See
gcc_AC_CHECK_DECLS in gcc/aclocal.m4.  Put it in configure.ac as,
e.g.,
    gcc_AC_CHECK_DECLS(basename asprintf vasprintf)

> > For example, I have written an introduction here:
> >     http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/
> 
> That's only a general introduction, as far as I see, not specific to the 
> integration of binutils? Is there a documentation on how to do the necessary 
> tests and settings to be platform independent specific for the binutils? I 
> ran in the described problems on Linux, but there may be other problems on 
> other systems, that should be taken into account? (I only have access to 
> Linux and Solaris for testing.)

No, I'm afraid there is not any binutils specific documentation.
Relatively few people use the BFD library outside of the binutils and
gdb.

Ian