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Re: [RFC] Adding --skip-mismatch option to ld
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 05:31:44PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 2) I don't understand why it's needed. Changing the default search
> path, as is done by the first half of the patch, sounds like the
> right approach to me. Irix faces these exact issues with its
> multiple ABIs, yet it does not need this option.
That works for system directories, but not /usr/local/lib and other
such places under user control. One could argue that we simply need
to teach old users new tricks.
> I don't think the option name --skip-mismatch is quite right. That
> seems too general for this. How about something like
> --skip-incompatible-archives?
We already have --[no-]warn-mismatch that's tangentially related.
That's presumably where Jakub got the name.
r~