On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > The N option is used to statically link a program. What manpage were you > > looking at? > > The man page is for ld. The gcc man page says ld is used to link. > The gcc man page also says that -static is the proper option for creating > static linked executables.
correct. but -N will be passed to the linker, and ld will on some architectures like m68k-linux or sparc-sun-sunos4 _implicitely_ use static linkage when -N is given (writable text segments and shared libraries contradict each other somehow). on the other hand: why is -N uses so often? apart from some weired, very special applications it's never needed. writable text segments are really _very_ bad and i've seen no place until now where it's really needed. writable data segments can, in most cases, be avoided with -fwritable-string in the gcc call, if one looks for a quick-n-dirty hack and doesn't like to fix broken c code. but in 99% of all packages (debian and non-debian) where i've seen it, -N can be simply be removed without any problems, it's not needed. so please remove it, unless you have realy good reason why you want to write in your text/data segment. jjm -- Juergen Menden | Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by me, tel: +49 (89) 289 - 22387 +-----------+ are (usually) not the opinions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of anyone else on this planet. Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Add me to your .signature and join in the fun!
