[committed] Clean up libobjc configure, stage 6/n

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr  9, 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> 
> > Same comment applies to this patch also - libobjc should not need
> > GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
> 
> Err...  GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES is not only about dependencies.  It's also
> about some platforms not being able to link executables, or requiring
> linker scripts that are not supplied by default such that you can't
> link.  That's what I was told anyway :-)

That sounds familiar.  It may be what we're using it for (though it
isn't what it's "about" - if it were I would know, since I wrote the
blasted thing :).  In that case we should be using AC_NO_EXECUTABLES in
all target libraries, but I'd like to have a concrete example of why in
some documentation somewhere.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer