From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: collect2 compiles C with g77 ! 
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <11735.879266551@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <rzqk9efhdea.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1997-11/msg00411.html

  In message < rzqk9efhdea.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk >you write:
  > >>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> writes:
  > 
  >  Philippe> Does someone know the best way to fix that ?  I can think of at 
  > least three :
  >  Philippe> 	1. Make collect2 always invoke gcc
  >  Philippe> 	2. Make g77 recognize .c suffix and invoke cc1
  > 
  > I don't know about the problem at hand, but g77 should definitely do
  > 2.  I hadn't realized that it now doesn't.
Actually, the language specific drivers (g77, g++) aren't supposed to
call other languages unless explicitly asked for by the user (-x option).

I think the root of Philippe's problem lies elsewhere...

jeff