[Bug c++/41333] Link error on Solaris 10 / GNU 4.3.2

["vijay dot x dot jain at jpmchase dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #8 from vijay dot x dot jain at jpmchase dot com  2009-09-15 04:18 -------
I have got the issue. The problem is not sed but rather the pattern being
searched from ld --version
My ld --version returns 
GNU ld (GNU Binutils)2.18

Where the pattern looked by the search pattern is 
GNU (go) ld (version)2.18

Please note that the LD version is 2.18 downloaded from GNU site itself.

I modidified the command
ld --version| head -1| sed -e 's/GNU ld \(version \)\{0,1\}\(([^)]*)
\)\{0,1\}\([0-9.][0-9.]*\).*/\3/'



to 
ld --version| head -1| cut -f2 -d')' 

Then the results for 
nawk -F. '{ if (NF<3) $3=0; print ($1*100+$2)*100+$3 }'
were as expected.
 ld --version| head -1| cut -f2 -d')' | nawk -F. '{ if (NF<3) $3=0; print
($1*100+$2)*100+$3 }'
21800

and then gcc the build went through sucessfully.

Using this gcc, I have been sucessful in building various component of our
application. Few components of our application still remaining to build.

But I think there is a potential bug with GCC compilation, the way it uses
pattern to determine ld version to enable versioning with the compiler. Either
the ld code should be modified to give version in consistent format or the
compiler compilation script should be modified to accomodate all possible
formats of the out of ld --version.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41333