Building collect2 for C?

Andris Pavenis pavenis@latnet.lv
Wed Mar 17 10:28:00 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:01, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > And for any other target that uses GNU ld as well.  So what?  That's
> > still only a subset of the targets which need collect2 functionality.  Do
> > you plan to require those platforms to use GNU ld instead of their system
> > linker?
>
> No, just wondering why my djgpp build builds collect2.exe.  Or why a
> collect2 issue affects MinGW.

At least for DJGPP: I think it's a relic from times when binutils didn't 
support weak symbols for DJGPP.

Andris



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