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Re: [RFC] Adding --skip-mismatch option to ld


On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 06:52:46PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> If --skip-mismatch is the default, the linker finds an entirely
> different libfoo.a later in the search path.  The link succeeds, but
> I'm using the wrong code.  My changes aren't in there, and I can't
> figure out why.  I have a serious debugging problem ahead of me.

Perhaps --skip-mismatch, while the default, also warns by default,
to be supressed by --no-warn-mismatch (for masochists)?

This whole multiple architecture configure+install issue wrt extant
packages is so horrible it makes me nauseous.



r~

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