Re: Collect2 issue

["Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>]

On 2/11/21 9:40 AM, Gary Oblock via Gcc wrote:
> I'm running my new optimization (LTO with one partition)
> on a SPEC17 test.
> 
> I got the mysterious message
>    "collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status"

Hello.

Can you please post full build log done with --verbose GCC argument?

Thanks,
Martin

> 
> Now, first off, with my debugging on at full tilt and it's
> clear my optimization bailed out after analyzing
> the code without doing anything.
> 
> Second, this is a canned test not modified by
> me or anybody else for that matter so, it's
> not a user error.
> 
> Finally, reading various blogs it seems that
> old object files hanging around can make
> collect2 to go bonkers. Therefore, I used
> specmake to clean the build and it didn't
> help, not that this makes any sense with one
> partition.
> 
> By the way, for those of you that get upset
> at the very notion of invoking LTO as one partition,
> it's actually not that bad. I can compiler gcc
> that way on a laptop in about 50 minuets using
> only 4.7% of my memory!
> 
> Any ideas?? What's happening, how to diagnose
> what's happening, how to work around it, etc...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
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