1842 – Useless linker command line output during compilation on Linux

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Issue 1842 - Useless linker command line output during compilation on Linux

Summary: Useless linker command line output during compilation on Linux

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Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of issue 1837
Alias:	None
Product:	D
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	dmd (show other issues)
Version:	D2
Hardware:	x86 Linux
Importance :	P2 normal
Assignee:	Walter Bright
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Reported:	2008年02月16日 02:32 UTC by Andrei Alexandrescu
Modified:	2015年06月09日 05:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Andrei Alexandrescu 2008年02月16日 02:32:45 UTC

When compiling with dmd on linux, the linker command line is output, e.g.:
$ dmd test
gcc test.o -o test -m32 -Xlinker -L/home/andrei/d/dmd/bin/../lib -lphobos2 -lpthread -lm
$ _
The compiler should only output the linker command in case that failed. Normal linking should issue no message. This has to do with a principle of Unix: silence is golden. Here's the relevant excerpt from a great book (The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond). It's a short and excellent read:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch11s09.html
Andrei

Comment 1 Frank Benoit 2008年02月20日 16:01:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1837 ***