[oi-dev] strange compiler error

[Toomas Soome]

You pass -b ( to linker) but not “binary”.

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> On 4. Nov 2022, at 22:14, Friedrich Kink via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I try to compile the newest asterisk version, but I get the following linker error:
> 
> /usr/gcc/7/bin/gcc -g -nostartfiles -nodefaultlibs -nostdlib -r -Wl,-b binary -o res_geolocation/pidf_lo_test.o res_geolocation/pidf_lo_test.xml
> ld: fatal: file binary: open failed: No such file or directory
> 
> /usr/gcc/7/bin/gcc -g -nostartfiles -nodefaultlibs -nostdlib -r -Wl,--format=binary -o res_geolocation/pidf_lo_test.o res_geolocation/pidf_lo_test.xml
> ld: fatal: unrecognized option '--format=binary'
> ld: fatal: use the -z help option for usage information
> 
> according to the man page (man ld) both variants are allowed, so I'd assume that it works (s. below)
> 
> ..
> 
> 
>        -b input-format
>        --format=input-format
>            ld may be configured to support more than one kind of object file.
>            If your ld is configured this way, you can use the -b option to
>            specify the binary format for input object files that follow this
>            option on the command line.  Even when ld is configured to support
>            alternative object formats, you don't usually need to specify this,
>            as ld should be configured to expect as a default input format the
>            most usual format on each machine.  input-format is a text string,
>            the name of a particular format supported by the BFD libraries.
>            (You can list the available binary formats with objdump -i.)
> 
>            You may want to use this option if you are linking files with an
>            unusual binary format.  You can also use -b to switch formats
>            explicitly (when linking object files of different formats), by
>            including -b input-format before each group of object files in a
>            particular format.
> 
>            The default format is taken from the environment variable
>            "GNUTARGET".
> 
>            You can also define the input format from a script, using the
>            command "TARGET";
> 
> Any idea what else could be wrong?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
>   Fritz
> 
> 
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