Re: Emacs 21.2 uses ld instead of gcc for linking

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:52:29 -0400
> 
> > This shouldn't happen: in a normal link, src/Makefile.in defines
> > either LD=$(CC) or LD="$(CC) -nostdlib", AFAICS.  This works either
> > automatically or because your src/s/OS.h file defines ORDINARY_LINK.
> 
> src/s/gnu-linux.h does not mention any of ORDINARY_LINK,
> COFF_ENCAPSULATE, or LINKER.  Should it?

No, I don't think so, because of this part:

    /* Fix linking if compiled with GCC.  */
    #ifdef __GNUC__

    #if __GNUC__ > 1

    #ifdef LINKER
    #define LINKER_WAS_SPECIFIED
    #endif

    /* Versions of GCC >= 2.0 put their library, libgcc.a, in obscure
       places that are difficult to figure out at make time.  Fortunately,
       these same versions allow you to pass arbitrary flags on to the
       linker, so there's no reason not to use it as a linker.

       Well, it's not quite perfect.  The `-nostdlib' keeps GCC from
       searching for libraries in its internal directories, so we have to
       ask GCC explicitly where to find libgcc.a.  */

    #ifndef LINKER
    #define LINKER $(CC) -nostdlib
    #endif

> "cpp Makefile.in" produces "LD=ld", though I don't know any way to
> make it show *how* it produced that.  Where should I look next?

I guess you should try to figure out why doesn't the above snippet
work for you.

FWIW, on a Debian GNU/Linux system, I get "LD= ${CC} -nostdlib".