[Bug ld/30063] inadequate error messages on wrong input file

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30063

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Stas,

  I think that this problem has already been fixed:

    % ld-new -melf_i386 -shared --whole-archive libc.a
    ld-new: libc.a: member libc.a(acos.O) in archive is not an object

    % ld-new -melf_i386 -shared --whole-archive libc.a --version
    GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.40.50.20230131

  In fact I think that it has been fixed for a while now.  I tested
  as far back as 2.37 and it is fixed there.

  However - it does look like it might be a distribution specific problem.
  I checked Fedora rawhide (which uses binutils 2.39), and that certainly 
  does produce the errors: 

    % ld -melf_i386 -shared --whole-archive libc.a
    ld: libc.a(acos.O):fake:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `_errno'
    [...]

    % ld --version
    GNU ld version 2.39-9.fc38

  So I suggest that you refile this bug with whichever distribution you are
  using.

Cheers
  Nick

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