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Re: Change default location of DJGPP's ld scripts
- To: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Change default location of DJGPP's ld scripts
- From: "Mark E." <snowball3@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:47:17 -0400
- References: <199909100029.AAA17468@out4.ibm.net> (snowball3@bigfoot.com)
> use its internal linker script, it does so. It only uses the external
> linker script if there is no appropriate internal script. That is,
> the linker never falls back to the internal linker script. The fall
> back is the other way around.
Then I misunderstood how this worked.
> We don't put target_alias in the tooldir path because we expect
> everybody to build their own binutils. I'm not sure what you mean by
> that.
The statement was based on the above misunderstanding. Forget about it.
> I don't see why removing target_alias is the answer. The answer would
> seem to be using something which DOS can cope with. Perhaps on DOS we
> should simply truncate the name.
>
> gcc uses target_alias when it finds programs like the assembler and
> linker. gcc and the binutils cooperate in that regard. Does this
> work on DOS? Perhaps people are simply required to put those programs
> on their PATH.
What happens with gcc is the target_alias is truncated to 'djgpp', so instead of the
egcs 1.12 backends (cc1.exe, etc.) being in:
c:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-msdosdjgpp/egcs-291.66/
they are instead in instead:
c:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/egcs-291.66/
truncating the target alias in the same way as gcc for the ldscripts directory would
be:
c:/djgpp/djgpp/lib/ldscripts/
which will work. But it kinda looks as if someone made a mistake and put in an extra
/djgpp in the path.
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Mark Elbrecht, snowball3@bigfoot.com
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