Re: ld --verbose output

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

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:16:20PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It was very annoying to figure out why glibc did not build when the
> script was not built-in.  On the other hand, the root cause of the
> problem was that binutils was not correctly configured.  

I won't call that "not correctly configured." On the other hand, my
Linux binutils has been "working correctly" since April :-).


H.J.