In recent lld-link versions, this command prints the version to stdout, but also prints an error to stderr: $ lld-link -flavor gnu --version LLD 4.0.0 (trunk 285641) lld-link: error: no input files lld-link: error: target emulation unknown: -m or at least one .o file required Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>tags/n3.3