How to handle linker options beginning with -f?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:

> Among the weird options supported by the NeXT/Darwin GCC for the
> benefit of the linker (which is open source but not related to GNU ld)
> are -framework and -filelist.  Of course, these are problematic for
> gcc.c, which has its own ideas about what to do with -f* options.

How much work would it be to change all places that pass these options to
the GCC driver to use -Wl,-framework,...?  In general, I think that's a
better approach for strange linker options than teaching GCC about them.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk