#3200: New programs installed with GCC
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Reporter: chris@… | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.3
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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The GCC package now installs 3 new programs, gcc-ar, gcc-nm, and gcc-
ranlib. None of them have manpages, running --help on gcc-ranlib produces
output identical to that of ranlib, and gcc-ar and gcc-nm don't say
anything when run except to complain about not having plugin support.
About all I could find is this mailing list message -
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-03/msg00100.html - saying they're some
kind of wrappers for Binutils plugins, and apparently for them to be
useful you'd need to add --with-plugins to Binutils configure.
I don't know anything about ar, nm or ranlib myself, and I certainly have
no clue what extra "plugins" might be for, but it should at least be
documented somewhere, whether by adding these programs to GCC's installed
list, enabling plugins on Binutils, or just removing them if they aren't
needed.
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