[openbeos] why an alternative ld?

  • From: "" <jandl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:14:47 EDT

I just noticed on the "Dev Central" area of the OBOS site that
there's a link to an alternative ld (rather than the one that
comes with BeOS)
http://beos.jetnet.co.uk/kernel/ld.zip
that's presumably to be used for building OBOS. The comment
on the Dev Central page says
"gcc linker: updated version to properly link apps with our libc
 library"

Why the new linker? -or- Wha? are we linking with a new libc?

Wait a minute. [A minute passes.]
I have no libc.so to begin with. (?)

Also, the link seems to be dead. Has it become available elsewhere?

---j

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