Re: Strange gcc "feature"

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>]

Simon Kagedal writes:
> > So I look in libW.a...  what do I see but w_bitblk.o: w_bitblk and
> > w_bitblk2.o: w_bitblk!  ARGH!  The cpp from 2.5.8 (in Gnustuff/Tos/...
> > on atari.archive) appears to be doing something REALLY stupid.  It's not
> > really truncating to 8 chars or anything like that, it's just picking
> > the first match on similar filenames!
> 
> I have seen a similar behaviour in other TOS-binaries, like the less & the
> man i previously used. It made me very frustrated until i noticed what was
> wrong, for example: man curs_addstr only got me the manual for curs_addch. 
> I looked in the man-folder, and they seemed to be different files with
> different filelengths, so i less:ed the curs_addstr file and got the same
> text. That was driving me crazy. :-)

*urrgh* :)

 make sure your gcc, and especially ld is built with mintlibs,
otherwise it won't know (enogh?) about long filenames.

 result: see above...

	Juergen