From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Lipe To: Jim Wilson Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: -belf Re: directory names in linker Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 05:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <19980327222920.28457@dgii.com> References: <35182974.4E2BD023@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> <199803262158.NAA08788@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-03/msg00994.html > I don't know what you are talking about, but -belf has never done what you > think it does, and this has nothing to do with EGCS vs gcc. Please see > the gcc documentation. I was mystified, too. I was going to pipe up, but since he didn't bother to name the host or target, I didn't bother to comment. > It would be possible to build a copy of gcc where -belf did something useful, > but that would require doing a lot of stuff by hand. Perhaps someone once > distributed a binary package for gcc that was hand constructed in such a way > that -belf worked. However, you can't expect -belf to work for a compiler that For SCO OpenServer, some dude did indeed distribute a wildly popular (a couple of tens of thousands distributed via download and CD) version of gcc that did support '-belf', just like the OpenServer native compiler did. I can't remember who that dude was, but I have it on Good Authority that it was actually based on a Cygnus progressive tree becuase that's what the dude happened to have. :-) In fact, for this target, it's even explictly mentioned in the EGCS doc: http://egcs-www.cygnus.com/install/specific.html with some additional info in the SCO prgrammer FAQ at http://www.dgii.com/cgi-bin/scoprgfaq/faq.pl RJL