From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@cygnus.com>
Cc: hjl@gnu.org, carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl, gas2@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [cygnus.gas2] binutils bug: config.guess 
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 23:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <199904050625.XAA18984@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990405155546.6311D-100000@moshpit.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00060.html

>> * Give full path of ld:  /usr/bin/ld.
> This is almost certainly guaranteed to fail on 50% of the systems I have
> ever used.

That is irrelevant.  The question is:  Is it likely to fail on
*Linux* systems, since (as far as I can tell) those are the only
ones that will be running ld?

>	(here=`pwd`; cd /; ld; cd $here)
> (to restore the original working directory afterwards).  Thanks, Per.

Or just do:
	(cd /; ld)
Remember: (CMD) runs CMD in a sub-shell.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner