Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:40:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: make fails Message-ID: <199606240840.KAA29542@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199606240834.SAA13588@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 24, 96 06:34:11 pm
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Bruce Evans writes:
>
>>>> cc -O -c /usr/src/usr.bin/lex/lib/libmain.c -o libmain.o
>>>> ld: invalid command option `-O'
>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Fascinating. For some non-evident reason, cc has decided to invoke
>>> the loader instead of the compiler. I can't see any good reason for
>
>> I thought this was expected behaviour for a single .c file without a -C?
>
> Without a -c. But there is a -c.
>
> -O is a not so new option to the linker (read your commit mail). The
> message from ld has nothing to do with the message from make about cc.
> Make prints `cc -O -c ...' to stdout and then runs cc. Then it runs `ld
> -O ${.TARGET} -x -r ${.TARGET}` without telling you what it is
doing.
Sneaky.
> Old versions of ld don't support -O so they print an error message to
> stderr.
Aha. That makes sense after all.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to print out the ld invocation line
too?
Greg
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