4.8.2 fails at strip

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Kevin Ingwersen
<ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey hey!
>
> I have just tried to build a new GCC, and this time put the binutils folder inside as well, because I simply needed newones as well. But when it is at making the dynamic libraries, it suddenly does this:
>
>         for mlib in $MLIBS ; do \
>           /Users/Ingwie/Downloads/gcc-4.8.2-build/./binutils/strip-new -o libgcc_ext.10.4.dylib_T${mlib} \
>             -R ../../../gcc-4.8.2/./libgcc/config/i386/libgcc-darwin.10.4.ver -c -urx \
>             ../${mlib}/libgcc/${mlib}/libgcc_s.dylib || exit 1 ; \
>         done
> /Users/Ingwie/Downloads/gcc-4.8.2-build/./binutils/strip-new: invalid option -- c
> Usage: /Users/Ingwie/Downloads/gcc-4.8.2-build/./binutils/strip-new <option(s)> in-file(s)
>  Removes symbols and sections from files
>  The options are:
>   -I --input-target=<bfdname>      Assume input file is in format <bfdname>
>   -O --output-target=<bfdname>     Create an output file in format <bfdname>
>   -F --target=<bfdname>            Set both input and output format to <bfdname>
>   -p --preserve-dates              Copy modified/access timestamps to the output
>   -D --enable-deterministic-archives
>                                    Produce deterministic output when stripping archives
>   -U --disable-deterministic-archives
>                                    Disable -D behavior (default)
>   -R --remove-section=<name>       Remove section <name> from the output
>   -s --strip-all                   Remove all symbol and relocation information
>   -g -S -d --strip-debug           Remove all debugging symbols & sections
>      --strip-dwo                   Remove all DWO sections
>      --strip-unneeded              Remove all symbols not needed by relocations
>      --only-keep-debug             Strip everything but the debug information
>   -N --strip-symbol=<name>         Do not copy symbol <name>
>   -K --keep-symbol=<name>          Do not strip symbol <name>
>      --keep-file-symbols           Do not strip file symbol(s)
>   -w --wildcard                    Permit wildcard in symbol comparison
>   -x --discard-all                 Remove all non-global symbols
>   -X --discard-locals              Remove any compiler-generated symbols
>   -v --verbose                     List all object files modified
>   -V --version                     Display this program's version number
>   -h --help                        Display this output
>      --info                        List object formats & architectures supported
>   -o <file>                        Place stripped output into <file>
> /Users/Ingwie/Downloads/gcc-4.8.2-build/./binutils/strip-new: supported targets: mach-o-x86-64 mach-o-i386 mach-o-le mach-o-be mach-o-fat pef pef-xlib sym srec symbolsrec verilog tekhex binary ihex
> make[3]: *** [libgcc_ext.10.4.dylib] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> So the -c flag is not supported by the binutils I choose.
> How can I get around this?


This really belongs going to gcc-help@.  The GNU binutils is not
supported for building a Darwin GCC.  Use cctools instead.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> Kind regards, Ingwie