Bug 902318

Summary:	unrecognized command line option '-melf_i386'
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Aravinda <holla.aravinda>
Component:	gcc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Aravinda 2013-01-21 11:25:40 UTC

Description of problem:
When ever I run eda tool Synopsys vcsi I use, I get an error
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-melf_i386'.


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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run a 32 bit tool
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Actual results:ld -r -m elf_i386 -o pre_vcsobj_1_1.o --whole-archive pre_vcsobj_1_1.a --no-whole-archive
if [ -x ../simv ]; then chmod -x ../simv; fi
g++  -o ../simv -melf_i386 -m32    -Wl,-whole-archive    -Wl,-no-whole-archive   SIM_l.o 5NrI_d.o 5NrIB_d.o    pre_vcsobj_1_1.o  rmapats_mop.o rmapats.o       /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/libnplex_stub.so /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/libvirsim.so /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/librterrorinf.so /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/libsnpsmalloc.so     /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/libvcsnew.so /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/libuclinative.so         /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/vcs_save_restore_new.o /tools/vcs_g_2012/linux/lib/ctype-stubs_32.a -ldl -lm  -lc -lpthread -ldl 
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-melf_i386'
make: *** [product_timestamp] Error 1



Expected results:
Proper running of the tool.

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Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2013-01-21 12:00:22 UTC

The tool is buggy then.  -melf_i386 is a linker command line option, not compiler, so you need to use -Wl,-melf_i386 (or nothing at all, for g++ -m32 on i?86/x86_64 that is the default).