Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!shelby!mcnc!sps From: sps@mcnc.org (Stephen Schaefer) Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug Subject: 1.36.3 Makefile nits Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 23:05:09 GMT Sender: daemon@mcnc.org Distribution: gnu Organization: Microelectronics Center of North Carolina Lines: 20 In article ham@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Peter R. Ham) writes: What to the "-lg" and "-lld" libraries refer to? I don't think that I have those libraries. Should they be referenced in the Makefile? On some COFF systems, the library ${libdir}/libld.a contains subroutines for manipulating COFF format files. I believe (CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG) that some of those same systems have ``debugable'' versions of the C library that contain extra debugging information; -lg selects that library in preference to the default C library. On a DECstation running Ultrix 3.1, the routines normally found in libld.a have all been put into libc.a; in my experience both those library references must be omitted there. -- Stephen P. Schaefer, Postmaster MCNC sps@mcnc.org P.O. Box 12889 ...!mcnc!sps RTP, NC 27709