[Bug 794373] Re: gcc now returns -1 when passed -R

[Hamish Downer]

This also breaks some configure scripts. I just hit this while trying to
install some ruby gems

  sudo gem install xapian-full

This failed and in the config.log I found

configure:3888: gcc   -R/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/xapian-full-1.2.3/lib conftest.c  >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized option '-R'
configure:3892: $? = 1
configure:3930: result: no

Is this something I should report to the package maintainer? Or is there
anything else I can do? Or is this bug actually valid?

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Title:
  gcc now returns -1 when passed -R

Status in “gcc-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In natty and earlier, passing -R to gcc would cause it to print an error
  message, but return 0.

  #cat > hw.c << EOF
  #include <stdio.h>
  int main() {
  	printf("hello, world\n");
  }
  EOF
  #gcc -R/lib hw.c
  gcc-4.5.real: unrecognized option '-R/lib'
  You have new mail in /var/mail/serge
  serge at sergelap:~/delme/ipsec-tools/l/ipsec-tools-0.7.1$ echo $?
  0

  But in oneiric, it returns -1:
  (ipsec)serge at sergelap:~/delme/ipsec-tools/l/ipsec-tools-0.7.1$ gcc -R/lib hw.c
  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
          LANGUAGE = (unset),
          LC_ALL = (unset),
          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
      are supported and installed on your system.
  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
  gcc-4.6.real: error: unrecognized option '-R'
  (ipsec)serge at sergelap:~/delme/ipsec-tools/l/ipsec-tools-0.7.1$ echo $?
  1

  This breaks the ipsec-tools configure script.

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