Re: Question: How dose Gcc choose which Ld and As to use?

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Question: How dose Gcc choose which Ld and As t...
\ Thomas Dineen (22 Dec 2007)
. \ Ian Lance Taylor (27 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Question: How dose Gcc choose which Ld and As to use?
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	Ian Lance Taylor
Date:	27 Dec 2007

Thomas Dineen <tdineen> writes:

> When gcc is executed to compile and link a target
> how dose it choose which ld and as to use?
> Not via the normal search path ($path) I think!
> It must be an explicitly hardwired path?
> So how and when is this path determined?
> At gcc build time? And can it be changed after build?

You can see the search path by running gcc with the -print-search-dirs
option.

You can change this path using the -B option or the environment
variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX and COMPILER_PATH. See the friendly manual.

Ian