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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/ld.texinfo')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texinfo | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 4f4cb0b..4d687e2 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -1568,15 +1568,15 @@ at link time. Searching @option{-rpath} in this way is only supported by native linkers and cross linkers which have been configured with the @option{--with-sysroot} option. @item -On an ELF system, if the @option{-rpath} and @code{rpath-link} options -were not used, search the contents of the environment variable -@code{LD_RUN_PATH}. It is for the native linker only. +On an ELF system, for native linkers, if the @option{-rpath} and +@option{-rpath-link} options were not used, search the contents of the +environment variable @code{LD_RUN_PATH}. @item On SunOS, if the @option{-rpath} option was not used, search any directories specified using @option{-L} options. @item -For a native linker, the contents of the environment variable -@code{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}. +For a native linker, the search the contents of the environment +variable @code{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}. @item For a native ELF linker, the directories in @code{DT_RUNPATH} or @code{DT_RPATH} of a shared library are searched for shared @@ -2220,6 +2220,12 @@ building the import libraries with those DATA exports. Note: Use of the to be made writable. This does not conform to the PE-COFF format specification published by Microsoft. +Note - use of the 'auto-import' extension will also cause read only +data which would normally be placed into the .rdata section to be +placed into the .data section instead. This is in order to work +around a problem with consts that is described here: +http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01101.html + Using 'auto-import' generally will 'just work' -- but sometimes you may see this message: |