trylink: don't use ld --gc-sections if ld doesn't support it
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
diff --git a/scripts/trylink b/scripts/trylink
index 7ea1d5c..8c88546 100755
--- a/scripts/trylink
+++ b/scripts/trylink
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
fi
)`
+# The --gc-sections option is not supported by older versions of ld
+if test -n "$GC_SECTIONS"; then
+ GC_SECTIONS=`check_cc "$GC_SECTIONS" ""`
+fi
+
# Sanitize lib list (dups, extra spaces etc)
LDLIBS=`echo "$LDLIBS" | xargs -n1 | sort | uniq | xargs`