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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:42:01 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> > I don't know enough about the GCC build process, but it's 
> > quite possible 
> > that "gcc -o foo" uses the linker script, and at least djgpp.djl says:
> > 
> >    OUTPUT_FORMAT("coff-go32")
> > 
> > which defeats ld's default.
> 
> Yes, but if that's true, stubify would still be needed, and I
> thought that was not needed with recent versions of binutils/gcc.

It isn't needed only if you say "gcc -o foo.exe", since stock DOS/Windows 
shells won't run a program without the right extension.  However, many 
Makefile's still don't use $(EXEEXT), so we cannot yet avoid using 
stubify as a general rule.

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