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Re: -Wl vs -W1
Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2006, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > Are you sure you are asking about gcc? To my knowledge gcc does not
> > support with a -Wl or a -W1 option. This is what I see when I try it:
>
> I think you must provide a comma (so the full option is probably
> technically -1, and -l,. The man page lists "-Wl,option". It passes
> arguments through to the linker by some means (I'm using it with
> -W1,-soname,libfoo.so.1).
Oh yeah, I managed to forget about that. -Wl is used to pass options
to the linker.
-W1 still doesn't mean anything, though, as far as I know.
Ian