Re: ld --verbose output

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

H . J . Lu writes:
 > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:33:15PM +0100, 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.
 > > 
 > 
 > FYI, that is I use in my Linux bintuils. I'd like to have a common
 > solution on this.

It looks like our patches are nearly the same.  Whatever, as long as
it works.

Andrew.