https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=704
--- Comment #22 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #21) > (In reply to Iain Sandoe from comment #20) > > (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #19) > > > (In reply to jos...@codesourcery.com from comment #18) > > > > Whether this is fixed may be determined by running all of the programs > > > > installed in $exec_prefix/bin by current mainline with the --help and > > > > --version options (and confirming the GCC version number is properly > > > > shown > > > > in the --version output). > > > > > > looks like gcc-nm and gcc-ranlib still fail with --help: > > > > That's not a fault with the GCC wrappers, it's because the "upstream" > > cctools nm and ranlib don't respond to "--help" (or --version). I have > > amended versions of them that handle --help and --version (available on > > github***) that work: > > > > $ ./gcc/gcc-ar --help > > usage: ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ... > > ar -m [-TLsv] archive file ... > > <snip> > > > > $ ./gcc/gcc-ar --version > > xtools-1.1.0 ar > > > > - the point is that this is not a problem with the GCC wrappers, the > > intention of them is to pass the --help and --version onto the underlying > > commands. > > > > From the point of view of Darwin, I'd say this could be closed, of course it > > might not be completely clean for other platforms. > > > > *** Note: the versions published on github are quite old - on the TODO to > > provide some updates. > > OK, closing then. Opened an issue on GitHub for your version of cctools about this: https://github.com/iains/darwin-xtools/issues/3