Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 11:41:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
cc: Colin Walsh <cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca>, Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com>,
        pneyz <pneyz AT bethany DOT edu>, Mirek Prywata <mpry AT fuw DOT edu DOT pl>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
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On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> I found this now after debugging ld and found, that ld looks at any time
> in this directory for the linker scripts (at least it checks if this
> directory exists) and cannot be customized in any way, except using an
> editor to modify the hardcoded string.

Some of the people who complained use Binutils 2.8.1 (and obviously E: is
their zip drive).  Therefore, I would suggest to fix at least 2.8.1 so it
doesn't try to access any path names it remembers from the machine where
it is built, and upload a fixed port to SimTel.NET.