-belf Re: directory names in linker

[Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>]

> I don't know what you are talking about, but -belf has never done what you
> think it does, and this has nothing to do with EGCS vs gcc.  Please see
> the gcc documentation.

I was mystified, too.   I was going to pipe up, but since he didn't bother
to name the host or target, I didn't bother to comment.

> It would be possible to build a copy of gcc where -belf did something useful,
> but that would require doing a lot of stuff by hand.  Perhaps someone once
> distributed a binary package for gcc that was hand constructed in such a way
> that -belf worked.  However, you can't expect -belf to work for a compiler that

For SCO OpenServer, some dude did indeed distribute a wildly popular (a couple
of tens of thousands distributed via download and CD) version of gcc that did
support '-belf', just like the OpenServer native compiler did.

I can't remember who that dude was, but I have it on Good Authority that
it was actually based on a Cygnus progressive tree becuase that's what
the dude happened to have. :-)

In fact, for this target, it's even explictly mentioned in the EGCS doc:
	http://egcs-www.cygnus.com/install/specific.html
with some additional info in the SCO prgrammer FAQ at
	http://www.dgii.com/cgi-bin/scoprgfaq/faq.pl

RJL