Re: default ld emulation

[Paul Jarc]

Nick Clifton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   Supported emulations:
>>    elf_i386
>>    i386linux
>> 
>> How do I find out which one is the compiled-in default?
> 
> Usually it is the first one in the list.

Any pointers to where I could look in the source to check that?

> Why do you need to know though ?  You can always uses the -m option to
> override the default emulation with itself.  It won't break ld.

I found something that has a Makefile rule to build a shared library
by using ld directly (without -m) instead of via gcc.  When I tried
using gcc to build it, ld was invoked with -m.  So if I use the
Makefile's rule, I wonder if I might be building it wrong.


paul