> I remember this was discussed on the linux-gcc list some time ago. The > above explanation is ok for a.out, and was primarily used to build small > programs (the page-alignment bit). That's probably why ae used it. Under > ELF, this part doesn't work anyway; I *think* that you get a static link > because of the "writable text" part. > > Anyway, the consensus seems to be that -N is completely obsolete under > ELF.
And it is the documentation which comes with dpkg-dev as well. Erick
