On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:31 PM Tadeus Prastowo <tadeus.prastowo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:27 AM Tadeus Prastowo > <tadeus.prastowo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:20 AM Peng Yu via Gcc-help > > <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > It seems when -print-prog-name does not exist. gcc still returns > > > normally. This doesn't make much sense. Shouldn't it return a nonzero > > > exist status in such a case? Thanks. > > > > > > $ gcc -print-prog-name=blahblah; echo $? > > > blahblah > > > 0 > > > > It returns normally because the option is provided as a service to > > find out about the absolute path of a possibly-hypothetical library, > > which is useful when you intend to build that library. > > That is for -print-file-name [1]. But the rationale applies to > -print-prog-name. The absolute path is also useful to build/search > something relative to where the given program name is expected by GCC > to exist. > > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Developer-Options.html#Developer-Options The problem is when the prog-name is not found. It should have returned such error info. It is a surprise that gcc is silent about this error. Therefore, it doesn't make sense. -- Regards, Peng
