On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Nathan Sidwell wrote: > We used to check all unknown input files, even when passing them to a > compiler. But that caused problems. However, not erroring out on > non-existent would-be-linker inputs confuses configure machinery that > probes the compiler to see if it accepts various inputs. This > restores the access check for things that are thought to be linker > input files, when we're not linking. (If we are linking, we presume > the linker will error out on its own accord.)
OK. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
