gas reports unrecognized option '-_SYSTYPE_SVR4' on IRIX 6.5.17m

[Will Morse]

Program:                ld
Platform:               IRIX 6.5.17m
Problem:                /site/apps/CLUE/sgibin/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-_SYSTYPE_SVR4'
                        which is coming from gcc and gas

The full message:

gcc -o sgi-hello hello.c
/site/apps/CLUE/sgibin/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-_SYSTYPE_SVR4'
/site/apps/CLUE/sgibin/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This is my first time compiling on this particular machine since setting up the GNU GCC and binutils.
I do not have a standard SGI development environment on this system.

This problem occurs when compiling:

/*
    Hello World Program
*/
#include <stdio.h>
int main () {
     printf("Hello World! \n");
}

Using gcc --v
Reading specs from /site/apps/CLUE/gcc3/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.2/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/site/apps/CLUE/gcc3 --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.2

which should be using

/site/apps/CLUE/sgibin/bin/as --version
GNU assembler 2.13
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `mips-sgi-irix6.5'.

and ld

ld --version
GNU ld version 2.13
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

I have an out-of-date SGI cc on one of my SGI systems and I am trying to put
a gcc development environment aon all the systems using gcc on an NFS
mounted partition.    The other SGI boxes do not even have /bin/as or /bin/ld.
I could probably get that to happen, but I was wanting to use the GNU products
so that I would have the same compiler, assembler and linker across all my
platforms (Solaris, Linux and IRIX).

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