GCC errors: unrecognized option '--as-needed'

GCC errors: unrecognized option '--as-needed'

[Amish C++]

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Hi,
I am getting the following error when I try to compile
a simple 'hello world' program. :
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
unrecognized option '--as-needed'
It's looking for the assembler program but for some
reason can't find it and I don't know where to look
for it. What happened was that I upgraded GCC from 3.2
to 3.3.4. GCC was working fine before but now it gives
me this error. Can anybody help me fix this?
Amish


		
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Re: GCC errors: unrecognized option '--as-needed'

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Amish C++ <amishcplusplus@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am getting the following error when I try to compile
> a simple 'hello world' program. :
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
> unrecognized option '--as-needed'
> It's looking for the assembler program but for some
> reason can't find it and I don't know where to look
> for it. What happened was that I upgraded GCC from 3.2
> to 3.3.4. GCC was working fine before but now it gives
> me this error. Can anybody help me fix this?

You need a newer version of the linker.  The --as-needed option was
added in binutils 2.15.

Normally if you build the compiler yourself it will determine whether
the system linker supports the --as-needed option, and decide whether
to use it based on that.  I'm guessing that you did not build the
compiler yourself, and that whoever did build it built it on a system
with binutils 2.15 installed.

Ian