On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm on a openSUSE 11.4 system with a: > > gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] > > host compiler. When I building gdb trunk, I get a failure to build because > configure tests g++ to see if these work, but gdb links with gcc and 4.5.1 > errors out with the flag. You can't set LDFLAGS, because that is given to > gcc, without testing the flag with gcc.
Hum, I was confused by other build errors. I was assuming that the diagnostic: gcc: unrecognized option '-static-libstdc++' was necessary to fix to get the link to not fail. I was wrong. It is however, unsightly.