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[Rainer Orth]

Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> writes:

> 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.

libtool doesn't do anything here, the -Wl,--compress-debug-sections
option is directly from the libbacktrace Makefile.  This is a known bug,
fixed in GCC trunk.  It doesn't affect gdb in any way, though.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University