3.2 - linker's --nmagic flag on Mac about book HOT 5 CLOSED

Hello! So yes, you specifically need to not use your system's ld: you need to cross-compile an ld.

From the OS X chapter:

After it is done you should have all the tools you need located in ~/opt. The tools should be named the same as the tools used in other chapters, but they might be prefixed with a x86_64-pc-elf-. The exception to this is grub.

This of course doesn't make it clear that this means in later chapters that you might need to use x86_64-pc-elf-ld instead of just ld later, though :/ Leaving this bug open to hopefully make it more clear.

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Oh, awesome. Sorry for the mix-up, I must have read through that too quickly and didn't realize I should, of course, be using the tools in the opt/ directory. Really appreciate the help though!

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Any time! Now that we've merged #144, let's give this a close :)

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My ~/opt is empty.As far as i can tell, i have all the tools installed but my linker is not working.

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If it's empty, it sounds like the script didn't install properly :/

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