Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 1996 09:19:56 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: V2 ld crashing
In-Reply-To:	<199602241736.MAA11842@njitgw.njit.edu>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960225091808.4642O-100000@is>
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On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Ian Viemeister wrote:

> At 07:23 PM 2/23/96 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >Try renaming the file and modifying lib/specs to match.
> 
> Ok, this probably should be in the FAQ - when using Win95, 
> (which treats *.lnk as shortcuts), ld has the possiblity 
> of failing when trying to access lib/djgpp.lnk Changing the 
> name of djgpp.lnk to djgpp.ld and changing the reference to 
> djgpp.lnk in lib/specs to djgpp.ld solves this problem.

Please elaborate.  What are those ``shortcuts'' and how does this special 
treatment they get from Win95 interfere with DJGPP linker?

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