[ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 15.1 released!

[Stuff Received]

On 2024-07-11 16:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 2024-07-07 14:02, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-announce via Gdb wrote (in
>> part):
>>>
>>>               GDB 15.1 released!
>>>
>>> Release 15.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available.  GDB is
>>> a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many
>>> other languages.  GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on)
>>> more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself
>>> can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants.
>> GDB 15.1 successfully builds with GCC-13.3.0 and runs on Solaris 11.3/Sparc.
>>
>> I was unable to run the testsuite because I could not convince the build
>> to use /usr/gnu/bin/ld (or /usr/bin/gld).  The variable LD=/usr/bin/gld
>> passed to the configure script is ignored.
> 
> Regarding /usr/bin/gld, from <https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html>:
> 
>      For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the
>      GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.4, from GNU binutils
>      2.30.1 or newer (in /usr/gnu/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gld), works, as does
>      the version from GNU binutils 2.42. However, it generally lacks
>      platform specific features, so better stay with Solaris ld. To use the
>      LTO linker plugin (-fuse-linker-plugin) with GNU ld, GNU binutils must
>      be configured with --enable-largefile. To use Solaris ld, we recommend
>      to configure with --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to guarantee
>      the right linker is found irrespective of the user’s PATH.
> 
> Jeff

Jeff:

Invoking "gmake check" with the Solaris 11.3 linker causes the following 
error.

libtool: link: /home/build/gcc/13.3.0/bin/gcc -m64 -funwind-tables 
-frandom-seed=ctesta -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute 
-Wcast-qual -g -g -O2 -Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib-gabi -o ctesta 
ctesta-btest.o ctesta-testlib.o  ./.libs/libbacktrace.a
ld: fatal: unrecognized '--compress-debug-sections' cmp-type: zlib-gabi

Basically, libtool invokes ld with a gld option.  This does not happen 
with the basic build/install.  I built gdb with the Solaris ld.

S.