From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: Passing list of objects to GNU ld...
18 Jul 1998 15:06:53 -0700
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To: Eric Devolder <ra3677 AT email DOT sps DOT mot DOT com>
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No, the same problem doesn't exist.  You can append one file at a time
to the library.  One could create the library with a script file one
file at a time.

---Eric Devolder <ra3677 AT email DOT sps DOT mot DOT com> wrote:
>
> The same problem exists in the course of creating the library. If
you have
> lots of object files needed to link together for a program, then you
may also
> have lots of object files to place in the library.
> 
> I for one would like a feature of being able to list the object
files in a
> text file. On a daily basis I use this feature in commercial
tool-chains.
> 
> Eric
> 
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Why not use an archived library file?
> >
> > ---Berend Ozceri <berend AT istanbul DOT engr DOT sgi DOT com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Excerpts from gnu-win32: 15-Jul-98 RE: Passing list of objects
to by
> > GNU ld...
> > >          Sergey Okhapkin
> > > >> Is there any way to get GNU ld to read the list of object files
> > to be linked
> > >
> > > >> from a text file containing the names of the object files, one
> > per line?
> > > >>
> > > >ld [options] `cat listfile`
> > >
> > > The problem is, I am trying to work around the issue of the
> > command-line being
> > > too long (i.e. exceeding the maximum number of command-line
> > arguments of the
> > > shell). Therefore cat'ing a file and expanding the file into
> > arguments is *not*
> > > a solution.
> > >
> > > In case anyone cares, this is for compiling the output of a
Verilog
> > simulator
> > > that converts Verilog into C, resulting in 1000+ object files.
> > >
> > > Berend
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