Re: ncurses on power

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:33:45PM -0500, Frank Winter wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am having trouble building ncurses on the Power 64bit
> architecture. I tried version 5.8 and 5.9. Both builds fail with the
> same linker error:
> 
> /bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R1M2/gnu-linux/lib/gcc/powerpc64-bgq-linux/4.4.6/../../../../powerpc64-bgq-linux/bin/ld:
> unrecognized option '--end-group-lgcc'
> /bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R1M2/gnu-linux/lib/gcc/powerpc64-bgq-linux/4.4.6/../../../../powerpc64-bgq-linux/bin/ld:
> use the --help option for usage information
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> 
> I configured the package quite standard I would say:
> 
> /home/dp007/dp007/fwinter/src/ncurses-5.9/configure
> --prefix=/home/dp007/dp007/fwinter/toolchain/install/ncurses-5.9-gcc
> CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O3 CXX=g++ CXXFLAGS=-O3
> 
> 
> I grepped for --end-group-lgcc in the package (source directory) and
> it doesn't seem to be used anywhere. So, I don't know where this
> flag entered.

The linker generally uses a script - I'd look there.

gcc has a verbose option which helps find the script, by showing
the parameters passed to the linker.

(gcc --help):
  -v                       Display the programs invoked by the compiler

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