illumos gate

There are still several problems with the error reporting of ld(1).

The two I most recently ran into are:

% ld --somethingbad --library foo --library bar
ld: fatal: unrecognized option '--'
ld: fatal: use the -z help option for usage information

As you can see, it doesn't tell you which long option is bad.

Further

% ld -lfoo --library
ld: fatal: unrecognized option '-l'
ld: fatal: use the -z help option for usage information
% ld -Lfoo --library
ld: fatal: unrecognized option '-L'
ld: fatal: use the -z help option for usage information

No, clearly, ld does indeed understand -l and -L, but --library needs an argument.