Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!stanford.edu!neon!neon!gumby From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Library function redefinition Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 01:39:00 GMT References: <1396@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Mar4.234345.3913@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu's message of 4 Mar 91 23:43:45 GMT Date: 4 Mar 91 23:43:45 GMT From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) It would be nice if someone (e.g. FSF) would develop a replacement for (or at least an alternative to) ld(1) that would get rid of the need for so many of the contortions I see developers going through to get around ld(1)'s inadequacies. We have; it's in beta and looks like it will be part of the gcc/g++ 2.0 release. It lets you do most of what you asked already; I sent your message to the poor guy who wrote it so he can fill in the gaps... But don't forget, NeXT doesn't use the gnu linker.