primix ld

[Jeff Makey]

In article <13758 at tiger.oxy.edu> bagpiper at oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter) writes:
>It appears that ld doesn't/can't handle
>as many files as nethack has.  Does anybody know of a way around this besides
>combining a lot of the files.  I guess moving a bunch of the files into an
>archive is an answer...but that seems like a fair amount of work.

A friendly RTFM response is appropriate here.  Look up the -r option
to ld, and use it to combine existing .o files into a few large .o
files, then do the usual ld using only these large .o files and the
libraries to produce your executable image.  Happy nethacking.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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