Re: Nit: False 'file path prefix never used' warning

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> |> Out of curiousity, what difference does the presence/absence of the
> |> trailing slash usually have?
> 
> The compiler driver just pastes the -B prefix before the program name, so
> if you use -B/usr/local/binutils/bin it will look for
> /usr/local/binutils/binld.

I suspected as much, but it doesn't seem to be true in this case:

drow:~$ c++ -fPIC -shared -Wl,-v -v segvtest.o -B/usr/local/binutils/bin
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/specs
gcc version 2.95 19990718 (prerelease)

 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/collect2 -m elf32ppclinux
  -shared /usr/lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/crtbeginS.o
  -L/usr/local/binutils/bin -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic
  -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95 -L/usr/lib/pic -L/usr/lib/pic
  -v segvtest.o -lstdc++ -lm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic/libgcc.a
  -lc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic/libgcc.a
  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/crtendS.o /usr/lib/crtn.o

collect2 version 2.95 19990718 (prerelease) (PowerPC GNU/Linux)

/usr/local/binutils/bin/ld -m elf32ppclinux -shared /usr/lib/crti.o
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/crtbeginS.o -L/usr/local/binutils/bin
 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic
 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95 -L/usr/lib/pic -L/usr/lib/pic
 -v segvtest.o -lstdc++ -lm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic/libgcc.a
 -lc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/pic/libgcc.a
 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-debian-linux-gnu/2.95/crtendS.o /usr/lib/crtn.o
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5)
c++: file path prefix `/usr/local/binutils/bin' never used


Dan

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