Re: Build Failure On Digital Unix 4.0D

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Boyce, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

nick.boyce> Richard> If you check the manual for ld, you'll probably
nick.boyce> Richard> find a few lines about '-f fil', where the
nick.boyce> Richard> filling is expected to be a 4-byte hex constant.
nick.boyce> 
nick.boyce> Well you're quite right; the ld man page says :
nick.boyce>   -f fill
nick.boyce>       Set the fill pattern for "holes" within an output section.  The argu-
nick.boyce>       ment fill is a four-byte hexadecimal constant.
nick.boyce> 
nick.boyce> But what I don't understand is why you're talking about a
nick.boyce> problem with "-fPIC" when my compilation objected to
nick.boyce> "-std1" ...

Ah.  Well, I'll do some qualified guesses: suppose that the command
line parser in ld is the stupid kind that checks if argv[i][0] is '-'
and then just does a switch(argv[i][1]) to process each possible switch,
and that for any switch value it will take argv[i+1].  So, it finds
your -fPIC, thinks it found -f and tries to use the next argument as
fill.  That happens to be "-std1" which is very far from a hex value,
so it complains...

And yes, I've seen that kind of parsing before, especially in pretty
old programs.

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