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Re: [RFC] Adding --skip-mismatch option to ld
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding --skip-mismatch option to ld
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:05:30 -0700
- Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <19990604171207.W949@mff.cuni.cz>
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 05:12:07PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Now Solaris linker apparently skips a library in the search path if it is
> for the wrong architecture (=emulation) which makes a lot of sense to me,
> that's why I wrote the second part of this patch. I've made it optional and
> not default because it differs from the standard library path searching, on
> the other side without this any compilation with some wrong arch library in
> the search path before the correct arch one would die in error.
I don't see any need to make this optional. My preferred solution
would be to skip the library with a note written to the map file
to aid diagnosing user's problems.
Other comments?
r~