http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61102
Bug ID: 61102 Summary: ld --plugin causes binutils gold incremental_test to fail Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: other Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: ncahill_alt at yahoo dot com This is a heads-up more than anything. I've been trying out gcc 4.9.0 and one of binutils-2.24/gold's testcases fails because --plugin is being emitted to ld. My only guess is that the new slim LTO object files are handled transparently in the sense that one can link with them without supplying the -flto option, and perhaps this requires always emitting --plugin. I haven't tried building gcc's version of gold but I find it more convenient to build it with binutils. So there is some incompatibility between the two packages it seems. This is the command: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -o incremental_test -Wl,--incremental-full incremental_test_1.o incremental_test_2.o This is gcc 4.9.0 on 32-bit i686. I've filed a bug report on binutils' bugzilla as well, the PR id is 16921. Thank you.