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Re: collect2 always built?
- To: tv at pobox dot com (Todd Vierling)
- Subject: Re: collect2 always built?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 98 11:12:47 PST
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> Is this an egcs thing or a gcc 2.8 thing?... Under egcs, --with-gnu-ld in
> the configuration causes collect2 ($(libsubdir)/ld) to be built and
> installed at all times as opposed to gcc 2.7.x', where the GNU ld is assumed
> to handle constructors and destructors of static items properly. Which is
> correct? I'm currently just deleting the installed collect2 binary and all
> works fine.
collect is needed even with GNU ld if you want the -frepo option to work.
But then, you might not care about -frepo.