[Bug gold/10931] New: Missing --sort-common option

[plaes at plaes dot org]

Gold linker is missing --sort-common option, which is required to build busybox.
[snip]
  LINK    busybox_unstripped
Trying libraries: crypt m pam pam_misc
Failed: -Wl,--start-group -lcrypt -lm -lpam -lpam_misc -Wl,--end-group
Output of:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=nocona -O2 -ggdb -pipe -Wall -Wshadow 
-Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wstrict-
prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-function -Wunused-value 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-
declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wold-style-definition 
-fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0 -ffunction-sections 
-fdata-sections -fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char -static-libgcc 
-Wl,-O1,--as-needed -o 
busybox_unstripped -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--start-group 
applets/built-in.o archival/lib.a 
archival/libunarchive/lib.a console-tools/lib.a coreutils/lib.a 
coreutils/libcoreutils/lib.a debianutils/lib.a e2fsprogs/lib.a 
editors/lib.a findutils/lib.a init/lib.a libbb/lib.a libpwdgrp/lib.a 
loginutils/lib.a mailutils/lib.a miscutils/lib.a modutils/lib.a 
networking/lib.a networking/libiproute/lib.a networking/udhcp/lib.a 
printutils/lib.a procps/lib.a runit/lib.a selinux/lib.a 
shell/lib.a sysklogd/lib.a util-linux/lib.a util-linux/volume_id/lib.a 
archival/built-in.o archival/libunarchive/built-in.o console-
tools/built-in.o coreutils/built-in.o coreutils/libcoreutils/built-in.o 
debianutils/built-in.o e2fsprogs/built-in.o editors/built-in.o 
findutils/built-in.o init/built-in.o libbb/built-in.o libpwdgrp/built-in.o 
loginutils/built-in.o mailutils/built-in.o miscutils/built-in.o 
modutils/built-in.o networking/built-in.o networking/libiproute/built-in.o 
networking/udhcp/built-in.o printutils/built-in.o 
procps/built-in.o runit/built-in.o selinux/built-in.o shell/built-in.o 
sysklogd/built-in.o util-linux/built-in.o util-
linux/volume_id/built-in.o -Wl,--end-group -Wl,--start-group -lcrypt -lm -lpam 
-lpam_misc -Wl,--end-group
==========
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
--sort-common: unknown option
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
use the --help option for usage information
[/snip]

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           Summary: Missing --sort-common option
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gold
        AssignedTo: ian at airs dot com
        ReportedBy: plaes at plaes dot org
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10931

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