Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:13:19 -0500 | From | Christopher Faylor <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking conf,mconf |
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:24:12PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:26:47PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >>> This patch attempts to correct the problem by detecting whether or not >>> NLS support requires linking with libintl. >> >>Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null? On >>several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails if it >>can't. > >Ouch. Out of curiosity - what is the reason for this behavior in ld?
Ouch, indeed.
I'd be interested in details on which platforms perform so lamely. When I grep for lseek and its variants in the bfd and ld source code, the only occurrences that I see are all working on object files - as I would expect.
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