bug#26016: Regarding how to link gzip

[Jim Meyering]

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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.