Re: mkcheck.in partial patch for AIX

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

On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:06:52AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> > Any suggestion on how one would prefer making -rpath optional?
> > Substitute @rpath@ when building mkcheck?  Test @host_os@ at runtime
> > to define $RPATH or choose $CXX template?
> 
> If we really must keep it, using libtool and -rpath (without -Wl) is
> the way to go.

I am in the process of libtoolizing mkcheck while waiting on wwwdocs
feedback.  It's going well so far, but can't be tested.  BTW, I have
incorporated the AIX size(1) stuff that David has posted.

Something that's killing my progress now is -- and it's probably a newbie
question -- how do you pass mode-specific arguments to this thing?
For mode=link, both the online manual and the output of mode-specific
--help list -rpath as such an option (along with -no-install, which makes
sense for the testsuite executables).  But neither of those ever make it past

  -*)
    $echo "$modename: unrecognized option \`$arg'" 1>&2
    $echo "$help" 1>&2
    exit 1
    ;;

which is part of the libtool script generated in the library builddir.


Phil

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