http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54820
--- Comment #16 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-10-23 20:46:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #15) > > Note that the configure test for whether the gcc driver supports > > -static-libstdc++ is unreliable, because before GCC 4.6 the GCC driver would > > exit with a 0 status even if an option is unrecognized. > > How nice... OK, I'm going to add a check on the GCC version then, thanks for > the heads up. Can't we also try running the resulting program, or at least looking at the output of ldd as this only matters for bootstrapping?