Re: [ghudson@MIT.EDU: Re: -Xlinker and LDFLAGS]

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 12-Jan-2001, Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, what I meant was this:
> 
> 	I don't see how that helps, since `-Wl,-R' is no more portable than `-R',
> 	isn't it?                          ^^^^^^
> 
> (I thought this would be understood from the context, but clearly not.)

Oh, I see what you mean now.

I think it helps just because of this:  certain platforms will have an
-R-accepting driver and others won't.  Reminding the user of a portable
linker hook will let them use -Wl,-R on those platforms where it's accepted
and -Wl,-whatever on the others.  But many people may not even know that -Wl
exists.  If we accept and pass -R on the platforms which use it, users might
believe that's the correct thing to do, and come to expect us to translate
-R into the correct linker option for those linkers which don't use it.

That was somewhat rambling; I'm probably not making a lot of sense.  :-)

Alexandre and others have convinced me that my first proposal was not
the best solution, but I feel that the current state still needs *some*
kind of fixing.


Phil
(I don't know how we ended up with both "-Xlinker" and "-Wl".  Why 'W'?)

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