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Re: how to use different linker
satyaakam goswami kirjoitti:
> On 11/7/06, Kai Ruottu <karuottu@mbnet.fi> wrote:
>> But there are also options/switches like '-B' to point to some "use
this time" linker....
> thanks for the reply i could not understand the last line can you
please eloborate , yes
> i do understand ld will search the path , my question is how to
override that and point
> to a different linker at link time.
The '-B <my_own_directory>' should put the '<my_own_directory>' being
searched
before the built-in path! So putting a 'ld' there should cause it being
found first. The
"nice GCC manual" says :
"For each subprogram to be run, the compiler driver first tries the ‘-B’
prefix, if
any. If that name is not found, or if ‘-B’ was not specified, the driver
tries two
standard prefixes, which are ‘/usr/lib/gcc/’ and ‘/usr/local/lib/gcc/’."
and so on about the '-B'.... So why not just read this from the GCC
manual? If it
didn't come with your system, it is anyway available on the net in many
places,
the:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
maybe being the first where people start to search for these pre-made
manuals in
PDF, PS, HTML, Info etc. formats....
That there really are 'nice' manuals for free software like GCC and
Linux, can be a
big surprise for many, for instance an old guy in his 70's was really
happy when
getting manuals for his Linux, the misunderstanding being that there are
none, only
the free sources from which to look :-( At least Red Hat, SuSE and
Mandrake have no
manuals on their install CD's but this doesn't mean there aren't those
on their web sites.
Neither the default GCC build produces any PDF, HTML etc. manuals, only
the 'info'
ones and maybe writing 'info gcc' and then trying to look the "GCC
User's Manual with
'info' is too hard nowadays... Or if not, the result may be totally
misleading: My SuSE 10.1
opened the "Installing GCC" manual with this command, not the expected
"Using GCC"!
Discussion like:
<A simple question which easily could get its answer from the manual>
Re: <RTFM>
Re: <Where in the hell is the manual?>
Re: < Please see some URL>
could be useful here sometimes.... Too many still think that there
aren't any nice manuals :-(