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

[Ian Lance Taylor via binutils]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:03 AM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:29 AM Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:45 AM William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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"?

What is the exact command that you are running, and what is the exact
output that you see from that command?

Ian