Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:19:05 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: CeDeROM <tomek.cedro@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default binutils - linker 2.15 versus 2.20 Message-ID: <e890cae61003260019u2bf532f7oaf61b305f786216a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3fcfb0ba1003251803p15b4012exf8cae140c6f88d32@mail.gmail.com> References: <3fcfb0ba1003251803p15b4012exf8cae140c6f88d32@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/3/26 CeDeROM <tomek.cedro@gmail.com>: > Hello world! > > I have problems building applications requiring ld 2.20 (located at > /usr/local/bin) where ld 2.15 (located at /usr/bin) is being invoked > with c++ (gcc4.2.1). Why there are two linkers on the system? Is it > possible to update the default linker to version 2.20? > An upgrade is not possible because binutils switched to GPL3 after version 2.17 and GLP3 code is not allowed in the base system. One possible solution would be to tell the applications to use /usr/local/bin/ld explicitly. Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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