From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: -frepo flag, is it supported?
Date: 19 Oct 1998 15:24:12 GMT
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 981019101601 DOT 7874I-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii  <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>In my experience, it is a rare program that needs stderr anyway, most
>of them will live quite well with an error code from the subsidiary
>program.

That's the whole idea behind collect2 -- collect the link errors (ie.,
the stuff linker writes to stderr) and recompile ;-)

>But if stderr is indeed needed, redirecting it before calling `popen'
>solves the problem.

Precisely.

Regards,
Mumit