Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:40:16 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199608261240.IAA15506@delorie.com>
To: robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960826141309.10171A-100000@newton.mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> (message from Robert Hoehne on Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:31:31 +0200 (METDST))
Subject: Re: Binutils 2.7


> Currently it is hardcoded in the BFD library, but I will try to find a
> way of reading it from a file. But here is the next problem/question.
> From which file?? In the current DJGPP distribution is no such file.
> Should it be read from a file with a fixed name or take the filename
> from an environment variable and if all of this fails, take the hardcoded
> stub?

I think an environment variable in djgpp.env (ld-specific, of course)
that refers to an external file, else use the hardcoded one.

> If you mean, that the linker should produce every time an .exe file,
> this is correct. But what about people, who want to get a raw COFF
> image? In this case you must tell ld the correct bfd-output-format and
> so you need two different targets and names for them.

That's what exe2coff is for.  Don't worry about it.