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

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:47:03PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 12-Jan-2001, Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I'll reiterate my suggestion that on platforms where we don't already
> > pass -R, we should recognize and warn about it.  Something like "-R is way
> > nonportable, maybe you want to start using -Wl".
> 
> I don't see how that helps, since `-Wl' is no more portable than `-R',
> isn't it?

No, -Wl is understood by GCC itself.  It's used to pass arbitrary
options down to the linker.  In this case, '-Wl,-Rdirectory' or '-Wl,-R
-Wl,directory' depending on whether a space is required, etc.

I should not have left that out in my previous message, sorry.


Phil

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