Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 13:09:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: V2 ld crashing
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On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Ian Viemeister wrote:

> I've been trying to test out V2, and I have encountered a rather 
> serious problem - for a simple 'hello' program, the compiler 
> goes just fine.... till it runs the linker. ld then crashes 
> with a meassge along these lines:
> e:/djgpp/bin\ld.exe:djgpp.lnk:1: ignoring invalid character `\000' in expression

ld is telling you something's wrong with the file djgpp.lnk (it's in the 
lib/ subdirectory of the main DJGPP installation).  Please look at that 
file and try to see if it's corrupted.  You can restore it from 
djdev200.zip, if you need.