Re: libgcj versus libtool

[Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

>> Here is the rather ugly patch.  You'd probably want to remove the
>> "CYGNUS LOCAL" markers.

Alexandre> Hmm, the problem is that it assumes gcc.  -B may have other
Alexandre> meanings, and we don't always want to pass it down.

This patch is really only any good for the Cygnus (or egcs) tree.  I
wouldn't recommend it for general use.

In the egcs tree we can probably assume that -B will only be used in
this particular way.

Alexandre> This is already implemented in libtool 1.3b, that is likely
Alexandre> to be released today.  I understand it might be cumbersome
Alexandre> to add -Wc, before -B, but I don't see any other portable
Alexandre> way to go :-(

Doesn't this end up being the same as your previous patch?  We have to
change CC in a particular way on a case-by-case basis in both
scenarios.

It is a bad situation.  No approach seems very clean.  Perhaps going
with your "-lt-" patch, and adding dummy dependencies for
compatibility, is the best way.  It adds a bit more overhead to a file
that is already complex.  To me this seems a bit better than
maintaining a local hack to libtool.

Tom