Remind users about -Wl,

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index a9e3d8c..465db1b 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-01-07  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cygnus.com>
+
+	* ld.texinfo (Options): Remind users to preceed linker command
+	line switches with -Wl, if it is being invoked by a comnpiler
+	driver program.
+
 Wed Jan  5 08:02:12 2000  Catherine Moore  <clm@cygnus.com>
 
 	* ld.h (wildcard_spec):  Change exclude_name to exclude_name_list.
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 382dd7e..9b822bd 100644
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -228,6 +228,20 @@ requires them.  For example, @samp{--oformat srec} and
 @samp{--oformat=srec} are equivalent.  Unique abbreviations of the names
 of multiple-letter options are accepted.
 
+Note - if the linker is being invoked indirectly, via a compiler driver
+(eg @samp{gcc}) then all the linker command line options should be
+prefixed by @samp{-Wl,}  like this:
+
+@smallexample
+  gcc -Wl,--startgroup foo.o bar.o -Wl,--endgroup
+@end smallexample
+
+This is important, because otherwise the compiler driver program may
+silently drop the linker options, resulting in a bad link.
+
+Here is a table of the generic command line switches accepted by the GNU
+linker:
+
 @table @code
 @kindex -a@var{keyword}
 @item -a@var{keyword}