This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sourceware.org
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: a few minor gold notes
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Ian> I'll take a look. When did gcc start passing --build-id?
>
> I hacked in a simple boolean option for --build-id.
> This isn't right, since --build-id takes an optional argument (ugh),
> but apparently the F8 gcc doesn't pass an argument.
>
> This got me to the next problem, which is that config.guess looks at
> ld --help output:
>
> ld_supported_targets=`cd /; LC_ALL=C ld --help 2>&1 \
> | sed -ne '/supported targets:/!d
> s/[ ][ ]*/ /g
> s/.*supported targets: *//
> s/ .*//
> p'`
>
> ... and decides that my platform must be i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld.
>
> I suppose it would be better to fix config.guess, though simpler to
> just print config.guess is looking for.
This should all be better now, I hope. gold now prints what
config.guess is looking for.
Ian