| Summary: | egcs-1.1.2: gcc seems to use direcory "ld" as linker | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | schludi |
| Component: | egcs | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | caret, schludi |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-08-04 12:46:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Do you have the current directory in your path? yes, my PATH begins with ":". schludi Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes: > Take "." out of your path. Or at least put it at the end of your > path. You're > a wonderful candidate for a trojan horse right now. > > jeff I know that if PATH begins with ":", someone evil could do me some harm. But this is what I want (as non-root user)! If I say: $ mkdir man $ type man man is /usr/bin/man this is what I expect. Since the directory "man" is not an "program" (though it has "x" bits) "type" ignores it. I think this is what gcc should do when it searches for "ld". regards, schludi One could argue that gcc should behave like "type" and ignore directories, but I can't say I see a big problem with the current behavior. The good news is that this has been fixed in the GCC development version (2.96; Ian Lance Taylor's change of 4 Aug 1999). The bad news is that this GCC won't ship with Red Hat Linux for a while, due to C++ incompatibilities. *** Bug 5647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** If there is a directory called "ld" in the current directory, and your PATH searches the current directory before other directories, the command "gcc x.c -o x" fails with: "collect2: ld returned 33 exit status". The problem probably exists on all architectures and may occur under other circumstances. I have only tested it on RH6.0 x86. Found while trying to run configure in binutils. |
this happens on redhat-6.0 with egcs-1.1.2-12 installed: $ mkdir foo $ cd foo $ echo 'main(){return 0;}' > bar.c $ /usr/bin/gcc -o bar bar.c $ mkdir ld $ /usr/bin/gcc -o bar bar.c collect2: ld returned 33 exit status