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

[Richard Stallman]

Would it be feasible to make gcc understand the linker -R argument for
GNU/Linux?  It looks like that would be useful.

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>> This means that emacs has to be treated differently from other
>> packages; for instance, you can't use an LDFLAGS value such as
>> -Wl,-R/thing/to/add/to/run/path.

> Why do you need the -Wl in practice?

	egyptian-gods% rpm -q redhat-release
	redhat-release-6.2-1
	egyptian-gods% touch foo.c
	egyptian-gods% cc -c foo.c
	egyptian-gods% cc -R/tmp foo.o
	cc: unrecognized option `-R/tmp'
	egyptian-gods% cc -v
	Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
	gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

(gcc 2.95 19990728 also doesn't seem to understand -R.)

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