Bug?: Selection of linker in Build Rules Dialog

[Mo DeJong]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Reiner Suikat wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm new to this list and to sourcenav. I just installed it yesterday (binary
> release on RedHat 6.2) and I'm VERY impressed!
> One thing I don't get to work though (is it a bug?): The manual says to
> select the linker program to be used (from the Link Rules dialog):
> click on the three dots to the left of the linker command entry field.
> Too bad, there are no three dots, its a plain text field and it cannot be
> edited.

Yeah, that is a bug. The little ... button is actually there, but you
just can't see it. This button was removed in prep for the next
version. It is a good thing you pointed it out because we need
to update the docs to account for that.

> Any hints, why I don't get the selection dialog? I want to use gcc as linker
> command to build shared libraries, but if I select library as target, it
> only offers ar, if I select executable, it uses g++, which does not behave
> well in linking shared libraries.

I just tried it and it looks like there is a bug in the "Linker"
field. I set it to ld but when I closed the dialog it gets
reset to gcc. I also tested this with 5.0 and the bug is
still in there. I am going to file a bug report on this
so it will get fixed in 5.0.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc