[arm-gnu] Building GCC 4.3 in Mac

[<risto.lankinen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

I've tried to build an Apple OSX hosted & ARM targeting compiler in OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using CodeSourcery GCC 4.3 (2009q1-203) source distribution.  I've tried several compilers (XCode 4.4, XCode 4.0, Mac Ports GCC 4.3 and Mac Ports GCC 4.4) to bootstrap the compiler build process, but all attempts have failed with what's apparently a known problem:  The GMP package fails to link.  The fourth row of the table in http://gmplib.org/macos.html starting "The linker has a long-standing and serious bug..." apparently is an exact description of my problem.  Unfortunately very little help is provided to resolve this problem.  (OK, reading between the lines gives the message "add the needed text segment references" but this is easier said than done since these symbols reside in x86call.asm file, and the syntax of the assembly language it contains is not familiar at all to me.)

I would like to know if someone has successfully built the configuration I'm attempting to, and how they got around this obstacle.

Thanks a lot in advance!

 - Risto Lankinen -