From cba3ccea13193dd0a8f1f942312d384d280173b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Izzard <r.izzard@surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:20:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add warning correction for make so we know when the linker
fails
---
make | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/make b/make
index c841397d8..9d8bd01af 100755
--- a/make
+++ b/make
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ while($_ = next_make_line())
# skip spurious intel compiler messages
<MAKE>;<MAKE>;<MAKE>;next;
}
+ elsif(m!unrecognized option '-Wl,-soname,libbinary_c.so'!)
+ {
+ # oops we're using ld as the linker when we should use gcc
+ print "\n\n$magenta Linking error $_ $reset\n\nTo fix this, try\n\nexport LD=gcc\n\nor\n\nexport LD=/usr/bin/gcc\n\nto use the compiler as a linker, then retry the build.\n\n\n";
+ }
else
{
next if(suppress_warning($_));
--
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