bug#26016: Regarding how to link gzip

[Sarthak Jain]

Somehow the newlines in the commands I mentioned got removed which is making it 
clumsy. Please find the commands as:

CFLAGS := -gdwarf-2
gunzip gzip-1.8.tar.gz && tar -xf gzip-1.8.tar
export CFLAGS
./configure --prefix=<some-dir>
make all
make install


-----Original Message-----
From: Sarthak Jain 
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 2:34 PM
To: 'Jim Meyering' <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: bug#26016: Regarding how to link gzip

Hi,
We have followed the following shell commands-

CFLAGS := -gdwarf-2
gunzip gzip-1.8.tar.gz && tar -xf gzip-1.8.tar export CFLAGS ./configure 
--prefix=<some-dir> make all make install

These are the commands we have executed. Please find the attached output of 
'./configure'. Our build machine is (x86_64 SuSE10SP4)

Thanks
Sarthak

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Jim Meyering
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 9:09 AM
To: Sarthak Jain <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug#26016: Regarding how to link gzip

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Sarthak Jain <address@hidden> 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.