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Re: PING [4.1 regression, patch] build i686-pc-mingw32


On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:10:49PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>Wouldn't that mean that 'cp' is a valid fallback even for non-GNU lds?
>
>We don't know what *else* a non-gnu linker/assembler might need.

I guess what I'm trying to get at here is some feeling for whether the
shell script method is there to work around a known problem or if it
is just working around a potential problem which might occur on some
theoretical platform which insists that its ld must be run from a
specific location.

But I guess it's no more than idle curiousity.

cgf


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