Re: [ppc patch] link with -m32

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:

> I think LDFLAGS are really processed by cc, no?  So we do not use ld,
> but cc if I am not mistaken.

No; compare the man pages for ld and gcc.

For example, -m32 is a gcc flag, and -melf32ppc is an ld flag. GCC 
complains if you pass it -melf32ppc, and ld complains if you pass it 
-m32. Look at all the -Wl options we use in grubof_LDFLAGS: -Wl means 
"pass these options to the linker".

We can use either gcc or ld to link, but we need to pick one. If we use 
ld, we will also need to use 'gcc -m32 -print-file-name=libc.a', since 
ld cannot find libgcc on its own.

-Hollis