On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: > The configure of the wxWidgets package tests for gcc with a simple > test app but during this test ld stops with error unrecognized option > '--as-needed' (see log) [...] > > Does anyone know why gcc calls ld with this option and how I could > correct it? > http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=16830 reads: Accept (and ignore) --as-needed/--no-as-needed options from GNU binutils 2.15 in our GNU binutils 2.14 to resolve a chicken and egg problem under platforms (like Fedora Core 2) which already run GNU binutils 2.15: the vendor cc(1) knows that it has ld(1) from GNU binutils 2.15 and hence always uses the --as-needed option when calling ld(1). Unfortunately, between having built "binutils" and "gcc" packages, this will break OpenPKG because the vendor cc(1) would run the OpenPKG ld(1) with an option it (still) does not understand. The only workaround is to let our ld(1) accept and ignore this option. Once our cc(1) from "gcc" package is installed, the problem is gone, because our "gcc" package correctly detects that our ld(1) still does ot understand --as-needed. -- Thomas.Lotterer@xxxxxx, Cable & Wireless
