Building collect2 for C?

[E. Weddington]

On 16 Mar 2004 at 17:44, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > Because I'm building a cross-compiler:
> > --host=mingw32
> > --build=mingw32 
> > and target != host
> 
> You should have GNU ld in this case, 

Yes.

though, assuming your target is
> supported by GNU ld.  

Yes.

> Why is collect2 needed *at all*?

*Exactly* the same question I asked that started this thread. :-)

I know I have GNU ld and that the target supports GNU ld, because I'm using the 
Cygwin environment to build in (building the cross compiler with CC="gcc -mno-
cygwin") and there are two separate targets that I'm interested in building: 
avr and m68k-elf. And I know that this issue has existed at least for 1.5 years 
on the avr.

> > It does make me wonder why it works for DJGPP, though I wonder if
> > that it works because you're building a native compiler, not a
> > cross.
> 
> Yes, djgpp is native.  Amusingly enough, the last djgpp-hosted cross
> compiler I built targetted Linux.

Same processor, though?

Eric