id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3200	New programs installed with GCC	chris@…	bdubbs@…	"The GCC package now installs 3 new programs, gcc-ar, gcc-nm, and gcc-ranlib. None of them have manpages, running --help on gcc-ranlib produces output identical to that of ranlib, and gcc-ar and gcc-nm don't say anything when run except to complain about not having plugin support. About all I could find is this mailing list message - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-03/msg00100.html - saying they're some kind of wrappers for Binutils plugins, and apparently for them to be useful you'd need to add --with-plugins to Binutils configure.

I don't know anything about ar, nm or ranlib myself, and I certainly have no clue what extra ""plugins"" might be for, but it should at least be documented somewhere, whether by adding these programs to GCC's installed list, enabling plugins on Binutils, or just removing them if they aren't needed."	task	closed	normal	7.3	Book	SVN	normal	fixed