mingw SEARCH_LIB: was gcc FAQ entries

[Chris Sutcliffe]

>> BTW: Your linker script SEARCH_LIB("/usr/lib"); ... entries cause headaches
>> on mingw pure. mingw ld should not be linked with that.
>
> Thanx for the heads up!
>
> I'm curious, I use the binutils package I uploaded to the MinGW site
> daily (with mingw pure, i.e. no Cygwin) and have not seen any issues,
> can you please provide an example of the issue (assuming it's not too
> much work)?

FWIW, I just went back to the older binutils packages, that they have:

SEARCH_DIR("/mingw/mingw32/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/mingw/lib");
SEARCH_DIR("/usr/local/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/lib");
SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib");

Defined in the ldscripts\i386pe.x.  So it's been this way for quite some time.

Chris

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