Re: [MiNT] binutils bug (or feature?)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 22:32 +0200, Patrice Mandin wrote:
> Le Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:30 +0100
> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> a écrit:
> 
> > Hi Vincent,
> > 
> > When using the linker, there's an option I'd like to use called
> > --warn-unresolved-symbols which works on Linux & ELF, but seems to be
> > ignored completely on our MiNT version.
> > 
> > Basically, it allows the final link stage to occur even with unresolved
> > symbols and the linker just warns.
> > 
> > Have you got time or shall I dig in ?
> 
> I think the answer is simply because we use static linking, and it is
> of course mandatory in this case that all symbols are resolved when
> linking the final executable.

That's the whole point of the option is that it isn't mandatory.

Alan.