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authorPeter Smith <peter.smith@linaro.org>2019-08-23 14:41:25 +0000
committerPeter Smith <peter.smith@linaro.org>2019-08-23 14:41:25 +0000
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[ELF] Mention contents of reproduce archive and add help description.
Building on D60557 mention the name of the linker generated contents of the reproduce archive, response.txt and version.txt. Also write a shorter description in the ld.lld --help that is closer to the documentation. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66641 llvm-svn: 369762
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@@ -408,9 +408,12 @@ Undo the effect of
.It Fl -relocatable , Fl r
Create relocatable object file.
.It Fl -reproduce Ns = Ns Ar path
-Write a tar file containing all input files and a text file describing the link invocation to
+Write a tar file to
.Ar path,
-so that you can easily re-run the linker with the same options and input files.
+containing all the input files needed to reproduce the link, a text file called
+response.txt containing the command line options and a text file called
+version.txt containing the output of ld.lld --version. The archive when
+unpacked can be used to re-run the linker with the same options and input files.
.It Fl -retain-symbols-file Ns = Ns Ar file
Retain only the symbols listed in the file.
.It Fl -rpath Ns = Ns Ar value , Fl R Ar value
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