From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
To: ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com, ericy@cais.com (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: A change to ld in the binutils 2.4 breaks Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 20:38:00 -0000
Message-id: <9409210337.AA29137@titanic.nynexst.com>
References: <199409201538.LAA20692@sanguine.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1994/msg00108.html

> The new linker does not complain about undefined symbols unless they
> are needed in relocs.  This is consistent with the SunOS linker, at
> least, and, I suspect, other linkers as well.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what the objective is here, but if what you want
> to do is simply determine whether a particular symbol is defined, you
> could just use the autoconf approach.
> 
> Ian
> 

Never mind. I have got ELF/PIC working on my machine. But I cannot use
the latest snapshot. I had to back out to gas-940912 and then apply
the PIC patches for Eric. It works like a charm. Thanks a lot guys.

I have built a set of ELF/PIC binaries of gcc, binutils and the Linux
C library. Eric, I think we are on the right track.


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H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com