egcs (1.1.1) for BSD/OS 4.0

Chris P. Ross cross@eng.us.uu.net
Wed Mar 31 18:59:00 GMT 1999


Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> said:
>   In message < 14044.4280.298632.666194@ballista.eng.us.uu.net >you write:
>> Ick.  You're right, of course, but it's really uglier than I'd hoped
>> to find.  Hmm.  Ponderances abound.

> I'm not sure I'd consider it uglier.  And it's really the way we deal with
> these kinds of issues.

> Hacking up collect2 like you did is extremely gross.

  I don't disagree with that last point.  But it seems well within
reason to make collect2 able to run ld without having to specify a
full path.  as doesn't get fully qualified before it's run, why should
ld be forced to be different?

            - Chris



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