In article <m1HKLt1-001dEvC@most.weird.com>,
Greg A. Woods <tech-toolchain@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>At Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:42:26 +0000 (UTC),
>Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> 
>> The culprit here is:
>> 
>> $ fgrep -r TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc4 
>> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc4/arch/i386/auto-host.h:#define
>TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP 1
>> ...
>> 
>> Which is set in current but not set in the 4.0 branch.
>
>Hmmm.... that's odd.  Diff shows no change I can see in that file
>between -current and netbsd-4
>
>Only abandoned-netbsd-4 would be missing the change you made to that
>file to turn on TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP explicitly without having to
>re-run configure et al.
>
>Could there be something else that turns on that "-lssp_shared"
>parameter when "-static" is in force?

Perhaps the TOOLS compiler does not have this defined, but the
system compiler is ok. There was a different patch in the autoconf
glue of the gcc compiler to make the TOOLS compiler behave...

christos