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Re: Building collect2 for C?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: eric at ecentral dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:44:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: Building collect2 for C?
- References: <40571F75.2743.5FCD02D@localhost>
> Because I'm building a cross-compiler:
> --host=mingw32
> --build=mingw32
> and target != host
You should have GNU ld in this case, though, assuming your target is
supported by GNU ld. Why is collect2 needed *at all*?
> It does make me wonder why it works for DJGPP, though I wonder if
> that it works because you're building a native compiler, not a
> cross.
Yes, djgpp is native. Amusingly enough, the last djgpp-hosted cross
compiler I built targetted Linux.