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collect2 outputs help to stderr
From: |
Simon Howard |
Subject: |
collect2 outputs help to stderr |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:52:15 +0000 |
The collect2 program, part of ld, gives the output from its --help
option to stderr rather than stdout. This makes it impossible to type
"collect2 | more" to display the help a page at a time. It also
contravenes the GNU coding standards which specify that output should
be to stdout:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces
--help
This option should output brief documentation for how to invoke
the program, on standard output, then exit successfully.
This is with GNU ld version 2.15
--
Simon Howard
http://fraggle.alkali.org/
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