Re: How to enable the option '--build-id' to ld ?

[William Tambe <tambewilliam at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:22 AM Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:44 PM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:42 PM Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:36 PM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:08 AM Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:03 AM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:29 AM Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:45 AM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > > How to enable the option '--build-id' to ld such that the following
> > > > > > > > error does not occur:
> > > > > > > > ld: unrecognized option '--build-id'
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What system are you running on?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am using GNU/Linux.
> > > > >
> > > > > What is the output of "ld --version"?
> > > >
> > > > $ arch-elf-ld --version
> > > > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32
> > > > Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> > > > the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version.
> > > > This program has absolutely no warranty.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What is the exact command that you are running, and what is the exact
> > > > > output that you see from that command?
> > > >
> > > > $ arch-elf-ld --build-id objfile.o
> > > > arch-elf-ld: unrecognized option '--build-id'
> > > > arch-elf-ld: use the --help option for usage information
> > >
> > > Hmmm, I haven't seen arch-elf-ld before.  What is the output of
> > > arch-elf-ld --help?
> >
> > I ported Binutils to a new architecture that I call "arch"; I would
> > like to know what code change I can do such that the option
> > '--build-id' is recognized.
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> For future reference, this is the kind of essential information that
> you should provide in the first e-mail message asking for help.
> Please don't make us guess what is going on.  That just wastes
> everybody's time.  Thanks.

My sincere apologies; I will be providing such essential information
going forward.

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> A port of GNU ld to a new architecture requires a
> emulparams/TARGET.sh, as selected by ld/configure.tgt.  For an ELF
> target, that file should set, among many other things,
> TEMPLATE_NAME=elf.  Doing that should cause ld to get a --build-id
> option.

ld now has --build-id; thanks.

>
> Ian