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Subject:	Re: -z option of ld.exe
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David Arnstein wrote:

> However, the cygwin man page for ld.exe does reference the -z option.

  The man page for ld, as for the other binutils, is quite generic, and lists
all the options supported on all the systems that binutils can be targeted
against.

> I would like to know if the cygwin maintainers intend to support this
> option. 

  Nope.  It only makes sense on platforms that use the ELF executable file
format.  Windows uses PE-COFF and Cygwin goes with that.

  For your purposes, just hack it out of the Makefile, hopefully everything
will work fine without it.


    cheers,
      DaveK

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