I have come up with a awk script that could be used in the makefile to query the ld version and make a decision based the output to add the compile option or not. I have attached the script and will incorporate it into the makefile and send a patch out hopefully today.
/********************* Marc Karasek MTS Sun Microsystems mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ph:770.360.6415 *********************/ Ed Swierk wrote: > On 12/7/07, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We should make sure this doesn't break any other distros / compiler >> versions. Do all reasonably new gcc/ld versions know about '--build-id'? >> > > The Fedora Core 6 version of ld (2.17.50.0.6-5.fc6) doesn't support > it. Not sure if that qualifies as reasonably new, but we're still > using it. > > --Ed > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios