HP/Compaq Tru64 linker semantics

[Andrew Pinski]

On Apr 28, 2004, at 16:37, Rainer Orth wrote:

> Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> writes:
>
>> Karl Vogel wrote:
>>> I was wondering what the general opinion is.. follow GNU ld as close 
>>> as
>>> possible? Or follow the standard way of the platform?!
>>
>> I would suggest that we should follow what the platform does.  People
>> porting to Tru64 will expect gcc to work the same way as the native
>> compiler, and if it doesn't, then packages with builtin Tru64
>> assumptions may fail.
>
> Fully agreed, even though this case of local vs. vendor supplied libdb 
> has
> bitten me as well.  Even though this default (searching for all shared
> libraries before the static ones) is highly unusual on Unix systems, we
> should follow the vendor here so GCC users don't get another surprise 
> when
> using GCC.

I should note that this is the same as Darwin's linker acts and there 
is no way to
change it for that target.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski