From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG #19727: pg-combinebackup fails to link
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Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> writes:
> That's a good point.  This is GCC 16.2 and binutils 2.47...

Hm.  The newest Linux installation I have at hand is Fedora 44
with gcc 16.2 + binutils 2.46, and it doesn't show this behavior.

Can you check on whether gcc is invoking /usr/bin/ld?  If it's
calling some other linker maybe that's the cause.

I'm suspicious in any case that there's something odd about either
your installation or your environment.  I don't recall ever hearing
a similar complaint, so this linking behavior can't be common.

			regards, tom lane