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wizzwizz4last Saturday at 10:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Knowledge of as, ld, ar, cc, etc is only needed when setting up (or modifying) your build toolchain, and in practice you can just copy-paste the build script from some other, similar project. Knowledge of these tools has never been needed.


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fn-moteyesterday at 2:07 AM

Knowledge of cc has never been needed? What an optimist! You must never have had headers installed in a place where the compiler (or Makefile author) didn’t expect them. Same problems with the libraries. Worse when the routine you needed to link was in a different library (maybe an arch-specific optimized lib).

That post is only true in the most vacuous sense.

“A similar project” discovered where, on BITNET?

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