On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Hibou57 <yannick_duchene@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > With GCC 4.6 (at least) and above, `configure --help` tells there exist a > `--enable-ld` option. The reference help [1] for GCC configuration options, > makes no mention of it, and the help returned by `configure` is sparse on > this option. > > As far as I know, `ld` is part of `binutils`, so do I guess right if I > believe it does not build an `ld` to be installed with GCC? If it does not > build an `ld`, what does it do? Is this an alias of `--with-gnu-ld`? > > if it's not documented in [1] (and not really by `configure`), where is this > documented? > > [1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html The top-level configure script is shared between GCC and the GNU binutils and gdb. The --enable-ld option is relevant for the binutils, not for GCC. As far as I know it is not documented other than the --help output. It is paired with --enable-gold. Ian
