Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Ryuji Yokoyama <rqy1319 AT is4 DOT nyu DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: What did I miss ?
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > >Using builtin specs.
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Aha! The infamous "Using builtin specs". This means `stubify' isn't being
> > run, thus no EXE file. I suspect using `-o prog.exe' will result in some
> > kind of error like "Corrupt executable".
> 
> Are you sure?  I don't have Binutils 2.8.1 installed, so I cannot
> check this, but I think `ld' from there knows how to generate
> DJGPP-style stubbed executables, even without `stubify'.  Can you
> please look into this?

Hmm, I don't have 2.8.1 installed either (maybe someday soon). But there
have been all manner of problems traceable to GCC not being able to find
its specs and using the builtin ones (a misfeature in our case, IMHO). I
would not be surprised if fixing that fixed this.

Is GCC 2.8 supposed to be used only with Binutils 2.8.1? Because if not,
this is a problem in any case, because somebody might use 2.7.
 


Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com