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Re: ld --verbose output
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:16:20PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> 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.
>
> It was very annoying to figure out why glibc did not build when the
> script was not built-in. On the other hand, the root cause of the
> problem was that binutils was not correctly configured.
I won't call that "not correctly configured." On the other hand, my
Linux binutils has been "working correctly" since April :-).
H.J.