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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: primix ld
Summary: RTFM, -r option
Message-ID: <303@logicon.arpa>
Date: 25 Jan 89 22:15:24 GMT
References: <13758@tiger.oxy.edu>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <13758@tiger.oxy.edu> bagpiper@oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter) writes:
>It appears that ld doesn't/can't handle
>as many files as nethack has.  Does anybody know of a way around this besides
>combining a lot of the files.  I guess moving a bunch of the files into an
>archive is an answer...but that seems like a fair amount of work.

A friendly RTFM response is appropriate here.  Look up the -r option
to ld, and use it to combine existing .o files into a few large .o
files, then do the usual ld using only these large .o files and the
libraries to produce your executable image.  Happy nethacking.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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