Re: [PATCH]: ld/Makefile.am

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:36:50PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar  9, 2000, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec
> > `/work/ia64/bin/cygnus/20000303/gcc/collect2': Argument list too long
>                                       ^^^^^^^^
> 
> Hey!  This comes up long before libtool's ld-new is ever started.
> It's the gcc driver that fails to exec collect2.  It looks like we've
> been barking up the wrong tree for all the time.  I don't understand
> how the extra dependencies might have fixed this problem, but, if they
> have, there's something very strange about your environment.  You
> can't blame libtool for gcc not being able to run collect2 :-)

I have verified that gcc can run collect2 just fine. But collect2
failed to run ld-new and it passed the error back to the gcc driver.
Maybe collect2 should tell the gcc driver which program causes that
error.


H.J.