ncurses on power

[Frank Winter]

All,

I am having trouble building ncurses on the Power 64bit architecture. I 
tried version 5.8 and 5.9. Both builds fail with the same linker error:

/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R1M2/gnu-linux/lib/gcc/powerpc64-bgq-linux/4.4.6/../../../../powerpc64-bgq-linux/bin/ld: 
unrecognized option '--end-group-lgcc'
/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R1M2/gnu-linux/lib/gcc/powerpc64-bgq-linux/4.4.6/../../../../powerpc64-bgq-linux/bin/ld: 
use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


I configured the package quite standard I would say:

/home/dp007/dp007/fwinter/src/ncurses-5.9/configure 
--prefix=/home/dp007/dp007/fwinter/toolchain/install/ncurses-5.9-gcc 
CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O3 CXX=g++ CXXFLAGS=-O3


I grepped for --end-group-lgcc in the package (source directory) and it 
doesn't seem to be used anywhere. So, I don't know where this flag entered.

Any help, very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Frank