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From: gag@lobster.NOSC.Mil (Gary A. Gilbreath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU ld is not working
Message-ID: <580@lobster.NOSC.Mil>
Date: 17 Dec 90 15:35:50 GMT
References: <19720002@hpctdkg.HP.COM>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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I used this package several months ago, so keep in mind that my
experiences are dated.

I was using DOS 4.01 with a 320MB hard disk, so I naturally had SHARE.EXE
loaded.  After finding that ld would not work properly, and after wading
through the source and re-compiling it under two different compilers, I
finally tracked it down to a section of code where a file that had already
been opened was being re-opened.  Unless you open the files with the proper
flags set, when you have SHARE loaded This Is Bad.  So I renamed SHARE and
rebooted the PC and it worked fine.

So the way to get ld to work is to make sure you *don't* have SHARE loaded.

Gary Gilbreath, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Internet: gag@manta.nosc.mil
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