binutils-2.11 ld testsuite problems + PATCH

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Lucio De Re wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:54:52PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> >
> > Weird.  I wonder if ld thinks there is something wrong with
> > /usr/lib/libc.so.1?  What does "readelf -h /usr/lib/libc.so.1" tell you?
> >
> At the risk of making a total fool of myself, isn't "ld" trying to
> find "-lc" as a file, rather than as an abbreviation for "libc.a"?

No.  See ldfile.c:ldfile_open_file, entry->search_dirs_flag != 0.