Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 15.1 released!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM Stuff Received <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2024-07-07 14:02, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-announce via Gdb wrote (in
> part):
> >
> >              GDB 15.1 released!
> >
> > Release 15.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available.  GDB is
> > a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many
> > other languages.  GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on)
> > more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself
> > can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows variants.
> GDB 15.1 successfully builds with GCC-13.3.0 and runs on Solaris 11.3/Sparc.
>
> I was unable to run the testsuite because I could not convince the build
> to use /usr/gnu/bin/ld (or /usr/bin/gld).  The variable LD=/usr/bin/gld
> passed to the configure script is ignored.

Regarding /usr/bin/gld, from <https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html>:

    For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the
    GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.4, from GNU binutils
    2.30.1 or newer (in /usr/gnu/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gld), works, as does
    the version from GNU binutils 2.42. However, it generally lacks
    platform specific features, so better stay with Solaris ld. To use the
    LTO linker plugin (-fuse-linker-plugin) with GNU ld, GNU binutils must
    be configured with --enable-largefile. To use Solaris ld, we recommend
    to configure with --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to guarantee
    the right linker is found irrespective of the user’s PATH.

Jeff