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From: Ben Elliston <bje@cygnus.com>
To: Per Bothner <bothner@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 23:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990405162904.6486A-100000@moshpit.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199904050625.XAA18984@cygnus.com>

> 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?

True; although, for instance, my ld is not in /usr/bin.  My ld is in
/usr/local/bin, and /usr/bin/ld will report the wrong executable format.
The point I was trying to make is that the script should be using the PATH
to pick up the user's choice of tools in as many circumstances as
possible.

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

Silly me.  Thanks,

Ben


  reply	other threads:[~1999-04-04 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <877lsq2xp2.fsf@cygnus.com>
1999-04-04 20:12 ` Ben Elliston
1999-04-04 22:53   ` Per Bothner
1999-04-04 22:58     ` Ben Elliston
1999-04-04 23:25       ` Per Bothner
1999-04-04 23:30         ` Ben Elliston [this message]
1999-04-05  8:12           ` Carlo Wood
1999-04-06  2:13           ` Richard Stallman
1999-04-06  9:10             ` Carlo Wood
1999-04-05  3:18     ` Ben Elliston
1999-04-05  6:35       ` Jim Meyering

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