Re: Cross ld build problems

[Nicholas Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jon,

> I think the fix is to compile it as default-manifest-new.o but install
> it as default-manifest.o, though I'm not too familiar with the Makefile
> to do this.

The problem here is that if you are running a built but not installed 
linker then it will fail to find the default manifest.  Running an 
uninstalled linker is not uncommon either - I do it all the time when 
regression testing.

I am having second thoughts about using the linker as the agent to 
install the default manifest however.  IMHO it would be better if
gcc/libgcc did this - after all they already have the multilib mechanism
in place and they already build files like crt0.o and crtend.o.  Why
not add default-manifest.o to the list ?  The answer, as I understand
it, is that the Cygwin developers want the manifest added even if gcc
is not used to link the application.  So maybe it is time to impose a
requirement to use gcc to link all Cygwin and Mingw binaries ?

Cheers
  Nick