binutils-gdb/ld
Jeff Law 93a6d43674 Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_open_dynamic_archive):
        Clean up code to use EXTRA_SHLIB_EXTENSION.

1999-09-14  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

        * configure.in: Define EXTRA_SHLIB_EXTENSION to ".sl" for HP target.
        * config.in: Add EXTRA_SHLIB_EXTENSION.

        * emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_open_dynamic_archive):
        Search for second shared lib extension only if EXTRA_SHLIB_EXTENSION
        is defined.
1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
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emulparams Change the default endianness to little. 1999-11-03 18:19:22 +00:00
emultempl Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) 1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
po Update. 1999-06-03 03:26:53 +00:00
scripttempl * scripttempl/elf.sc (.rel.sdata): Combine all the sdata relocs 1999-10-07 02:19:45 +00:00
testsuite Fixed test to disable these checks if the target is PE based. 1999-11-01 16:29:06 +00:00
acinclude.m4 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
aclocal.m4 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ChangeLog Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) 1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
config.in Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) 1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
configure Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) 1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
configure.host 1999-10-27 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 1999-10-28 03:42:49 +00:00
configure.in Wed Nov 3 23:31:19 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com) 1999-11-04 06:45:07 +00:00
configure.tgt 1999-09-04 Steve Chamberlain <sac@pobox.com> 1999-09-04 17:37:36 +00:00
deffile.h * pe-dll.h: New file. 1999-09-12 15:27:48 +00:00
deffilep.y * deffilep.y (tokens): Add upper and lower case versions of DATA, 1999-09-28 20:22:55 +00:00
dep-in.sed 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
gen-doc.texi 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
genscripts.sh * Makefile.am (GENSCRIPTS): Pass EMULATION_LIBPATH, not EMUL. 1999-06-18 15:25:45 +00:00
h8-doc.texi 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ld.1 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ld.h 1999-09-12 Donn Terry <donn@interix.com> 1999-09-12 16:59:49 +00:00
ld.texinfo * ld.texinfo: Fix arguments of @var to not contain punctuation. 1999-09-09 16:12:28 +00:00
ldcref.c * Many files: Changes to avoid gcc warnings: Add ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED 1999-07-11 20:09:04 +00:00
ldctor.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldctor.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldemul.c * Many files: Changes to avoid gcc warnings: Add ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED 1999-07-11 20:09:04 +00:00
ldemul.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldexp.c * Many files: Changes to avoid gcc warnings: Add ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED 1999-07-11 20:09:04 +00:00
ldexp.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldfile.c * ldfile.c: Revert patch of 1999-07-08. 1999-07-09 22:52:05 +00:00
ldfile.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldgram.y This fixes ! to work as documented in a memory region attribute list. 1999-06-12 21:24:56 +00:00
ldint.texinfo 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldlang.c 1999-11-01 Steve Chamberlain <sac@pobox.com> 1999-11-01 23:37:48 +00:00
ldlang.h This fixes ! to work as documented in a memory region attribute list. 1999-06-12 21:24:56 +00:00
ldlex.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldlex.l 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldmain.c * Many files: Changes to avoid gcc warnings: Add ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED 1999-07-11 20:09:04 +00:00
ldmain.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldmisc.c 1999-09-12 Donn Terry <donn@interix.com> 1999-09-12 16:59:49 +00:00
ldmisc.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldver.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldver.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldwrite.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
ldwrite.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
lexsup.c 1999-09-12 Donn Terry <donn@interix.com> 1999-09-12 16:40:09 +00:00
mac-ld.r 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
Makefile.am Add earm_epoc_pe.c build target. 1999-09-22 08:32:06 +00:00
Makefile.in Add earm_epoc_pe.c build target. 1999-09-14 13:18:43 +00:00
mpw-config.in 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mpw-elfmips.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mpw-eppcmac.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mpw-esh.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mpw-idtmips.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mpw-make.sed 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mri.c 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
mri.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
NEWS mention --no-undefined 1999-06-13 19:25:57 +00:00
pe-dll.c * pe-dll.c (process_def_file): Move the offset lookup from here to 1999-09-29 00:31:40 +00:00
pe-dll.h * pe-dll.h: New file. 1999-09-12 15:27:48 +00:00
README 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
stamp-h.in 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
sysdep.h 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
TODO 19990502 sourceware import 1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00

This is the GNU linker.  It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils.  See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.

There are many features of the linker:

* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
  that it uses to read and write object files.  This helps
  insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.

* The linker supports a number of different object file
  formats.  It can even handle multiple formats at once:
  Read two input formats and write a third.

* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.

* The linker supports a control language.

* There is a user manual (ld.texinfo), as well as the
  beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texinfo).

Installation
============

See ../binutils/README.

If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile.

To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).

Porting to a new target
=======================

See the ldint.texinfo manual.

Reporting bugs etc
===========================

See ../binutils/README.

Known problems
==============

The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable.  The GNU linker does not do this by default.  This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets).  This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl.  You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.

HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly.  The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages.  There are various
workarounds to this:
  * Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
  * Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
  * Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
    genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
    emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.