Bug 420687

Summary:	emerge --info should include CC, CXX variables and ld type
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mark <mark.morschhaeuser>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kensington, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780477 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722456
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Description Mark 2012-06-11 12:53:39 UTC

GNU Gold is a replacement for the Bfd linker and included in binutils. I found some issues with the gold linker when bfd worked, but emerge --info does not print the exact linker profile, only which binutils version is used.

Proposal: include information of ld -v, which prints GNU gold or GNU ld, or whatever linker is used.

Also: Since clang 3.1 is able to compile many, many packages and some people try to use it as system compiler as much as possible, printing only gcc information is not enough in emerge --info when someone set CC=clang and CXX=clang++ in his make.conf, where this information is missing.

With this enhanced output the gentoo developers can see if someone uses a non default or unsupported toolchain.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-03-16 01:15:15 UTC

We added CC/CXX a while ago and ld mentions whether gold or not now.