Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:40:57 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: LD looks at zip drive
In-Reply-To:	<19971231064601.BAA06639@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971231093554.3217C-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 31 Dec 1997, Myknees wrote:

> That is very interesting.  Forgive a newbie for asking: you mean that you just
> edited the source and recompiled LD?  I'd try that right now, but I'd have to
> take the time to learn how to do it properly.  I might mess something up.

I'd guess you don't even need to change the sources.  That path name was 
built into LD when it was compiled by Robert; if you rebuild it on your 
machine, it won't have any path names that don't exist on it.

The problem is that GNU packages are usually built and used on the same 
machine, so their configuration procedure finds out where libraries and 
headers are installed on your machine and build them into the binary as 
the default paths.  It usually takes extra effort to make the binaries 
work on other machines.  It seems to me that in the case of Binutils, 
some path is searched even if it doesn't exist, which is IMHO a bug in 
the port.

It shouldn't be hard at all to rebuild Binutils.  If you have any 
problems to do what the DJGPP-specific README file there says, please 
report it as a bug.

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