I think that really will help me remember. Thank you.
On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Simon Geard <delga...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 09:06 -0500, Roy Birk wrote: >> And I might have been better off copying and pasting. It's difficult to >> tell the difference, in the book, between the number one and the letter >> L (lower case). I checked man pages and went with whichever seemed more >> sensible, but got it wrong a couple of times with the -W1 option. > > Oh yeah, misreading '1' and 'l' (and I) is classic. There's a reason a > lot of countries have restrictions on characters like those appearing on > car license plates. > > But if it helps you remember it, the 'l' in -Wl stands for linker - it's > the mechanism for providing parameters that should be passed through to > the linker (which gcc invokes), not read by gcc itself. So for example, > passing "-Wl,--verbose" to gcc means that gcc will pass "--verbose" when > it runs ld. > > Simon. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
