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Re: ld --verbose output
H . J . Lu writes:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:33:15PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > ld is rather inconsistent when one uses --verbose. If its linker
> > script happens to be builtin, ld --verbose outputs it. If its script
> > is not builtin, ld instead prints out the name of the file in which
> > the script may be found.
> >
> > While this may be all well and good to users, some build scripts
> > process the output of --verbose to get a linker script. glibc does
> > this, and if the script happens not to be builtin the build fails.
> >
> > I think that ld --verbose should behave consistently and always output
> > the linker script whether it is builtin or not. That's what this
> > patch does.
> >
>
> FYI, that is I use in my Linux bintuils. I'd like to have a common
> solution on this.
It looks like our patches are nearly the same. Whatever, as long as
it works.
Andrew.