egcs calls collect2 instead of ld

Martin von Loewis martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Oct 31 10:13:00 GMT 1998


> Is this intended or a bug?  If it's not a bug, why does it not use
> GNU ld?

This is intended. It still uses ld, though.

egcs uses collect2 by default, even on ELF systems, to support the
-frepo option. collect2, in turn, calls /usr/bin/ld (on Linux).

Regards,
Martin



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