<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 13:53, Joachim Breitner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nomeata@debian.org">nomeata@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":1z4">(But I am really wondering why the linker cannot do something that has<br>
the same effect as objcopy --prefix-symbols, but on the fly.)</div></blockquote></div><br>Some of them can; notably the binutils ld, which comes from the same source as and uses the same mechanism as objcopy.<div><br></div>
<div>The linker on OS X doesn't have this particular mechanism (although I think it has other features that could be used toward the same end, if not in the same way), and binutils ld does not work properly on OS X (nor does objcopy, again because it's the same mechanisms; the BFD library doesn't support Mach-O properly. This is probably why Apple at first shipped a crippled version and later removed it entirely. You can install a full set from MacPorts, but it breaks a *lot* of stuff...).</div>
<div><br></div><div>And Solaris's ld has still another way to do this kind of thing, IIRC.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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