whither specs?

[Mumit Khan]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Geoff Keating wrote:

> Can you give examples of the sort of things that users might like to
> change?  I'm thinking that a lot of them are along the lines of
> "please pass this flag to the linker".

Typical one for me is to add the rpath/R directive to pass on to the
linker. We have multiple versions of GCC installed on all our platforms,
and each lives in its own little area; this implies that the shared
libraries that are installed with GCC live in directories that are not
normally searched by the dynamic linker[1], and it's simply not practical
to expect users to know where these things hide (and it gets messier
whenever multilibs are involved).

[1] While there are tools such as ldconfig/crle/etc on various platforms
to add these directories to the search list, it's definitely not something
we want to deal with.

Regards,
Mumit