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Re: PING [4.1 regression, patch] build i686-pc-mingw32
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:40:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:25:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >> Except that "cp" is already used as a fallback for when "ln" doesn't
> >> work. If the tool is likely not to work after a "cp" then shouldn't the
> >> fallback condition be to always create a shell script (or .bat file)?
> >
> >One could argue that, in the case with ln/cp, we *know* we're dealing
> >with GNU tools which don't care where they are, but in the case with a
> >system (i.e. third party) tool, we don't know, hence the script.
>
> Is that actually true, though? Doesn't GNU ld try to locate files
> relative to its invoked path?
Yes, that's correct.
> Is there a non-GNU ld out there which needs to reference things relative
> to its path?
This I don't know the answer to.
> >I just configure using --with-as=/path/to/original-as-for-target and I
> >don't run into the problem.
>
> Since we know that mingw uses GNU ld couldn't we prewire this action
> into configure by default and avoid the need for this kind of
> system-specific behavior in the makefile?
On other systems, this makes the GCC build not relocatable at install
time. I don't know if that is true on mingw32 also, but I presume so.
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