From: "Keith McCormick" <kdm98 AT spiritone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Collect2 question?!?
Date: 31 Jul 1999 10:18:49 GMT
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Correction: It does sent packet through the Dial-up connection.  The
collect2 program is somehow sending TCP/IP packets to no specific
destination.  They must be TCP/IP packets because the Dial-up is only setup
to use TCP/IP protocols.

Keith McCormick <kdm98 AT spiritone DOT com> wrote in message
news:933363928 DOT 26014 AT ridge DOT spiritone DOT com...
> The collect2 program seems to be sending data to a machine that is not on
my
> network because only the RX light on the computer that collect2 is running
> flashes.  I know it is doing something with my network card because I can
> have a Dialup connection and nothing happens with it when collect2 is run.
>
> KeithM
>
> By the way, what is collect2 suppose to be for?
>
> <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote in message
news:B0000096490 AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv...
> > On 30 Jul 99, at 9:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 29 Jul 1999, Keith McCormick wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am using the DJGPP port of EGCS 1.12 and the compiler calls
> 'Collect2' as
> > > > the linker which then calls 'LD.'  My question is why does the
> collect2
> > > > program access my LAN when running.
> > >
> > > One possibility is that the default directories hard-wired into
collect2
> > > when it was built reference some drive that on your machine is a
> > > networked drive.  See section 6.12 of the FAQ for more on this.
> > >
> > > Andris, could you please check if this is the case, and if not, what
is?
> > >
> >
> > Very strange. Even if there could be some absolute path inside
> > collect2 it should be something like C:/DJGPP/...
> >
> > However I didn't find any in binary at all (and I expected that)
> >
> > Andris
> >
>
>