Dave Nadler wrote: > C:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe: unknown option -- e > > Can't ld provide this information ? Seems like it is generally helpful to > anyone trying to debug a link step ? You can use -Wl,--verbose. > Sure, but where did it get the requirement ? In this case the gcc -v option > shows me, but for more complex link steps... crt0.o comes from the libc, so if it is not being found then your C library is not installed properly. "properly" means that it should be in $sysroot/lib if you configured gcc with a sysroot, otherwise $prefix/$target/lib. If you want to see where gcc thinks a file is supposed to be located, you can use "gcc -print-file-name=crt0.o". > Right, but I'd like to be clear exactly what ld is trying to do > in the case of an existing build, and again after I builld it... For these kind of things it's not about linker behavior. gcc is the component that knows where things like crt0.o are supposed to be located, and passes the corresponding search directories to the linker. So if it's not found, that means either the file isn't in the right place or gcc wasn't configured to know the right place. Brian
