Jonathan Nieder wrote: > That does make sense. Perhaps “traditionally” was not the right word; > I was just looking at common practice. I’ve just never seen -O put > into LDFLAGS, for example, and I think most people would expect > setting CFLAGS=-O0 to affect the linker, too. [This is now a bit off-topic, see below, but what version of gcc are you using that passes -O to the linker (well, collect2 anyway)? Do you have to pass -flto? For example "gcc -v -g -O2 hello.o -o hello" seems to show (for both gcc 3.4.4 and gcc 4.4.0) that neither -g or -O2 is passed to collect2. Hmmm, the output from gcc 4.4.0 adds a line like: COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-g' '-O2' '-o' 'hello.exe' '-mtune=i386' so, does this imply this is a env. var exported to collect2? dunno ;-P ] > I suspect the problem comes from my unfamiliarity with MSVC. Heh, I'm not an expert user of msvc either! > Maybe clink.pl should use “cl.exe /link” instead of “link.exe” and this > problem would go away. I tried this *very* quickly and it didn't work. (It's quite possible that I could spend some time and get it to work, but ...) The patch that Peter sent seems like the way to go, since it does not affect the regular (non-msvc) build - and it works! ;-) So we can drop this patch. Thanks for your time. ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html