[Bug gold/10980] New: Please support more options available from old ld

[robert dot wohlrab at gmx dot de]

I rebuild the whole debian archive and noticed that many programs don't build
because gold doesn't support special operations. Is it possible to support more
of them? Some are maybe completely useless or used in a wrong. Please add only
add a information for them so I can forward the information to the maintainer of
the package.

The first list of package/flags are following:

 2 ld: -G: unknown option
 * java3d
 * qdbm

 1 ld: -fpic: unknown option
 * cyclades-serial-client

 1 ld: -fPIC: unknown option
 * lsb-build-base3

 1 ld: -g: unknown option
 * qdbm

 1 ld: -i: unknown option
 * ulogd

 1 ld: --section-start: unknown option
 * gfxboot

 2 ld: --warn-constructors: unknown option
 * memtest86
 * memtest86+

 1 ld: --warn-multiple-gp: unknown option
 * mkelfimage

 1 ld: --add-needed: unknown option
 * kwave

 1 ld: --allow-multiple-definition: unknown option
 * brutefir

 2 ld: -assert: unknown option
 * aspectc++

 1 ld: -combreloc: unknown -z option
 * db1-compat

 1 ld: --cref: unknown option
 * faumachine

 2 ld: def: unknown -z option
 * bobcat
 * gnugk

 1 ld: --discard-all: unknown option
 * traybiff

 1 ld: -fPIE: unknown option
 * mandos

 1 ld: muldefs: unknown -z option
 * gnudatalanguage

 1 ld: --no-undefined-version: unknown option
 * libdebian-installer

 1 ld:  relro: unknown -z option
 * kerneloops

 1 ld: --retain-symbols-file: unknown option
 * yate

 1 ld: --sort-common: unknown option
 * busybox

 1 ld: syms: unknown -z option
 * xbuffy

 1 ld: -warn-common: unknown option
 * gputils

13 ld: -x: unknown option
 * asterisk-chan-capi
 * c2hs
 * gtk2hs
 * libcap2
 * libedit
 * libf2c2
 * libpam-chroot
 * libpam-foreground
 * libpam-opie
 * libpam-pwdfile
 * muddleftpd
 * openafs
 * pam-krb5-migrate


More packages/flags will follow because they must be analysed per hand.

Downstream bug can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/555886

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           Summary: Please support more options available from old ld
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.20
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: gold
        AssignedTo: ian at airs dot com
        ReportedBy: robert dot wohlrab at gmx dot de
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10980

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