Re: PATCH: LDFLAGS handling in V3

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:48:40PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > > I do  understand what you mean about quoting and about reusable scripts.
> > > I suppose I could work on that, once we know what we want it to do.
> >
> > So, I think we have to go this route.
>
>
> Why bother quoting LDFLAGS - why not add a new variable containing the
> --sysroot option, update target libraries to use it (a bit messy but
> mechanical), and put --sysroot X -Wl,--sysroot,X in it iff we have
> detected that GNU ld is being used and supports --sysroot?

Well, that would suit my immediate needs just fine.  It wouldn't fix the 
general problem, though, in that things like -specs= in 
LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET will still be ignored by libtool --mode=LINK.  You're 
right, though; if there's no clear path forward, we can definitely just 
do as you suggest.

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