Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] linking error

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From: Philippe legay <phlegay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:48:33 +0100

Nina Pham wrote:

> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> >Nina Pham wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>link: invalid option -- e
> >>Try `link --help' for more information.
> >>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x100'
> >>Stop.
> >>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code '0x2'
> >>Stop.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I have the same problem. The cause is, that there's a link.exe in the
> >cygwin binaries (recently added), being used instead of the MSVC link.exe.
> >
> >The easiest solution might be to rename this /usr/bin/link.exe to
> >something like /usr/bin/link.exe.old or such.
> >
> >I'm very unhappy with the current solution, but even after thinking
> >about it didn't found another good solution.
> >
> >Regards, ULFL
> >
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> You are right. Aww, It took me 2 hours. Thanks a lot
>
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Is is not possible to say LD=/the_right_exe/ ?

On linux I will do :
./configure
then modify Makefile (generated by configure) and I wll modify the LD entry.

Just an idea
PHL.