Unable to give executable as input

[Christian Groessler]

On 5/25/21 7:44 AM, kamlesh kumar via Binutils wrote:
> Hi All,
> 2.36 version linker(ld) was accepting executable as input but now with
> trunk, it no longer works, and getting below warning/error.
> $./build-binutils-gdb/ld/ld-new -r test -o test.o
> ./build-binutils-gdb/ld/ld-new: cannot use executable file 'test' as
> input to a link
> Can someone give some insight why this behavior was enforced?


Are you sure your command line is correct? It suspiciously looks like 
you wanted to have

$./build-binutils-gdb/ld/ld-new -r -o test test.o

regards,
chris