Re: gcc configure with gnu ld

[David Berthelot <davidb at Magma-DA dot COM>]

Are you doing all that in order to use ild (sun's incremental linker)
instead of GNU ld ?

If so I would be interested if you can succeed because I have never been
able to make gcc + ild work.

Thanks.

David


Peter Kurpis wrote:

> > From aoliva@redhat.com Wed Apr  4 01:36:41 2001
>
> > I must be missing something.  Where does collect2 fit into the
> > picture?  To the best of my knowledge, it just passes these flags on
> > to the actual linker.
>
> Okay, I got the explanation.  I looked at  collect.c  cursorily,
> and although it seemingly parses some args, it passes most to
> a fork to  ld .
>
> The confusing thing turned out to be the behavior of GNU  ld ,
> specifically with respect to the  -R  flag, which behaved like
>  -rpath , although was documented (or so I thought, from the
> docs I'd seen) to do something completely different.
>
> But I just checked  www.gnu.org/manual  for the official ld
> manual, and on ELF systems,  -R  followed by a pathname does
> indeed behave like  -rpath , for compatibility.
>
> As a sidenote, I just rebuilt  gcc  to point to the Solaris
>  as  and  ld , using your suggestion, and it only works with
>  -R  now, as expected.
>
> Just goes to show me to RTFM.  ;-)  Thanks for your help!