collect2 no PATH override

Jay Michael <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Sep 2012 22:09:16 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.compilers.gpc
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     I think "collect2" should honor all of the "where to find compiler components" switches fed to GPC.

     I think it would be helpful if GPC defaulted to acting as if it were run with "-B <directory containing gpc>" (unless the user provides a "-B" switch).


     The "collect2" in the binary distribution of gpc-2007-09-04 for Windows doesn't seem to make any effort to locate the "ld" it runs -- if there is no "ld" in the PATH, it prints

ld-orig: No such file or directory


     I have been running GPC without putting GPC\bin in my PATH.  It has been working.  Then I discovered that when I installed Free Pascal, it took the liberty of updating my system-wide PATH.  When I removed it from my PATH, running GPC\bin\gpc resulted in 

gpc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory

Adding "-B GPC\bin" solves that, but has no effect on "collect2" finding "ld".

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