[cvs-nhc98] patch applied (nhc98): Fixed ARCH confusion

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:15, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > Since $LD is already defined to equal $CC, I'm thinking to replace
> >     ld -r ...
> > with
> >     $LD -Wl,-r ...
> 
> What doesn't work: gcc is
> not aware that we only  want to do a partial linking, despite of the
> -Wl,r option, and tries to link  things like -lc, -lgcc, ... :-(

Hmm.  How about telling gcc -nostdlib and/or -nodefaultlibs?

> Is this partial linking really necessary? Or can the driver script be
> adapted  to handle 2 .o files explicitly when dealing with *.gc files?

I can't remember exactly why the partial linking was introduced, but
have a feeling it was to make things cleaner, not dirtier.  :-)
Possibly because hmake only needs to look for one object file.  Or
possibly because the ghc version of greencard only generated a single
object.

Regards,
    Malcolm