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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> From prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
>> Emacs 21.2's build process uses ld for linking in some cases and gcc
>> for others.
>
> 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?  "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?


paul