Gcc driver and -T option

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:22:59AM -0400, 7400 wrote:
> I would like to know the opinion about following situation related with gcc driver.
> 
>  - I have a directory under which there are 2 c files say  - 1.c and 2.c
>  - I compile these file using gcc -o test.exe *.c -Tscript.ld
>  - This script.ld uses 1.o and 2.o
> 
>  Since 1.o and 2.o are NOT created in the cwd the link fails
>  I'm aware that driver chooses $TMPDIR to create temporary file and deletes them when linking
>  is done
>  Temporary files are never created in the current directory Also when temporary files are
>  created their names are
>  different than that of the .c files .    No doubt the linking will fail in the case the
>  above as specified object files are not found in current directory  Since gcc
>  drive is not aware of what obj files are  specified in the linker script ( and why it should
>  be ? ) it will try to pass the object files in  $(TMPDIR)/temporary files with 
>  generated names to linker (-v option shows the temporary files used )

You should not have to mention 1.o and 2.o by name in your linker
script.  Just place the sections you want.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer