Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:05:20 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 566

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Tuesday 21 June 2005
 Number  566
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Subjects for today
 
1   gcc -b, what does it do? : Dave Yeo" <dave_yeo at paralynx.com>


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Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:36:14 -0800
From:  "Dave Yeo" <dave_yeo at paralynx.com>
Subject:   gcc -b, what does it do?

While compiling gtk1.2.10 with gcc3.3.5 I got this error
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o testgtk testgtk.o .libs/gtk.a -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lgmodule -lglib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lm ../gdk/.libs/gdk.a -lgmodule
-lglib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -bexpall -lgmodule -lglib -lm
gcc: `-b' must come at the start of the command line

Has anyone seen this before? Looking at the GCC 3.3.5 manual -b is used
to specify the target machine when cross-compiling. Obviously it must
of had a different meaning at one time but I have no manual for 2.8.1
or previous
Dave