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Re: Question on ld and --exclude-libs

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: noloader at gmail dot com
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:30:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Question on ld and --exclude-libs
References: <CAH8yC8=0WQQUqemOdZmvRESQYbNAD0YKPvWfgj44hosVQ5u_vg@mail.gmail.com>

Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

> From ld/ChangeLog-0203, it appears --exclude-libs first appeared
> (Smith's 05/2002 comments).
>
> In ld/ChangeLog-2004, it appears --exclude-libs was tuned (and the PE
> target was removed) (Jacobowitz's 10/2004 comments).
>
> Conservatively, I believe that makes --exclude-libs available in Binutils 2.12.

The binutils 2.12 release was branched in February 2002.

The May 2002 patch added --exclude-libs only for PE targets.  The
October 2004 patch added --exclude-libs for ELF targets.  The October
2004 patch first appeared in the binutils 2.16 release.

> Question: FreeBSD's ld is 2.15, so it should contain --exclude-libs.
> Can anyone pinpoint where I went wrong?

That's where you went wrong.  You need at least 2.16 for ELF support for
--exclude-libs.

Ian

References:
- Question on ld and --exclude-libs
  - From: Jeffrey Walton

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