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

[Joe Buck]

> On Jan 11, 2001, Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> wrote:
> 
> > And maybe -R *should* work on any platform where the linker supports
> > the -R switch.
> 
> This would probably make matters even worse.  GNU ld accepts -R as an
> alias to -R on all platforms it supports.  But that doesn't mean the
> native linker does.  So, GCC's accepting -R would depend on whether
> it's configured to use GNU ld or the native linker.  Doesn't appeal to
> me.

Fine, only support -R where we know that either GNU ld is always used,
or the native linker supports -R.