GNU bug report logs - #26016
Regarding how to link gzip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Sarthak Jain <Sarthak.Jain <at> microfocus.com>

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:07:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 26016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Sarthak Jain <Sarthak.Jain <at> microfocus.com>
Cc: 26016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26016: Regarding how to link gzip
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:39:12 -0800

tags 26016 moreinfo
done

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Sarthak Jain
<Sarthak.Jain <at> microfocus.com> wrote:
> We are using gzip library in our product and I was upgrading the library to the latest version 1.8. While building, we saw that is it using '/usr/bin/ld' for linking. But on our build machine, we want to link it with 'gcc'.
> Is there any flag we need to pass while configuring to tell it to link using 'gcc' instead of '/usr/bin/ld'.
>
> I tried to see in the configure script but I was not able to get one. Can you please share some info on this?

We may be able to help, but only if you first tell us more about your problem:
  - what precise commands you ran (starting from the pristine unpacked
gzip-1.8 tarball)
  - what output they produced
  - describe your system, i.e., Fedora 25, Solaris 11, Debian unstable, etc.
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