forcing the linker to be a particular one (i.e. gold vs bfd)

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:03:53 +0200
Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:

> > Thanks for the tip!  Perhaps we should add a sentence about it in the
> > documentation?
> 
> -B is already documented in "Options for Directory Search":
> 
> `-BPREFIX'
>      This option specifies where to find the executables, libraries,
>      include files, and data files of the compiler itself.
> 
>      The compiler driver program runs one or more of the subprograms
>      `cpp', `cc1', `as' and `ld'.  It tries PREFIX as a prefix for each
>      program it tries to run, both with and without `MACHINE/VERSION/'
>      (*note Target Options::).
> 

I was thinking to add a sentence like "The -BPREFIX option can be
useful to force a particular ld to be used" in the Linker options
section. But maybe that is not a good idea.

Cheers.


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