Bug#105986: Please let gcc tell me the error :)

[Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>]

Package: gcc-3.0
Version: 1:3.0-0pre010403
Severity: wishlist

This in an issue with both gcc 3.0 and gcc 2.95. I just tried to
compile my project and got the following message (after tons of
make-stuff):

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thimo/UG/course/appl/couplex'
gcc-3.0 -o course2d debug.o course.o lib/libapp2.a ../pclib/lib/libcourse2.a /home/thimo/UG/ug//lib/libug2.a  /home/thimo/UG/ug//lib/libdomS2.a /home/thimo/UG/ug//lib/libgrapeOFF2.a /home/thimo/UG/ug//lib/libgg2.a /home/thimo/UG/ug//lib/libdevX.a      -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXaw -lXt -lX11 -lffm -lm        
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [course2d] Fehler 1
escher course/appl> 

I wondered for quite a while what the reason for this was (commented
out stuff, analyzed the make-output, etc.) but it was far more easy: an
instance of the program was still running which prevented gcc from
writing the binary. Now my wish is that gcc tells this instead of
"collect2: ld returned 1 exit status" ;-)

CU
   Thimo

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux escher 2.2.19 #1 Sun Jun 10 06:04:03 UTC 2001 alpha
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages gcc-3.0 depends on:
ii  binutils                2.11.90.0.7-2    The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-3.0                 1:3.0-0pre010403 The GNU C preprocessor.           
ii  gcc-3.0-base            1:3.0-0pre010403 The GNU compiler collection (base 
ii  libc6.1                 2.2.3-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc300               1:3.0-0pre010403 Shared libgcc.