https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=704
--- Comment #20 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (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.