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Re: Mainline patch to stop collect2 unlinking directories

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:36:12 -0700
Subject: Re: Mainline patch to stop collect2 unlinking directories
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506030027330.1150@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Jun 2, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

This patch, the mainline version of
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-06/msg00092.html>, stops
collect2 from unlinking non-regular files when there is a linker error
(in particular stopping it from unlinking a directory named as linker
output on systems allowing directories to be unlinked).

OK to commit?

Seem reasonable to me and mirrors recent ld advances. -o /dev/null is darwin's favorite example... when building as root, so this isn't just solaris.

References:
- Mainline patch to stop collect2 unlinking directories
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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