whither specs?

[H. J. Lu]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:08:14PM +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote:
> That being said, rth was OK for looking at a patch adding some -R 
> like functionnality (just for gcc's own libraries) provided this was 
> selected at configure time. I have it working for linux and solaris:
> it basically works by generating the proper -Wlrpath directives
> internally while processing the gcc specs for libraries. I got 
> some comments at first versions of the patch... Then, at some point,
> I posted a revised (partial) patch for cleaning up lib_spec handling
> within gcc.c (most of the non-configury work was in that patch) and
> got no answer. I should have probably ping'ed about that patch....
> 

I am not totally against passing -R to ld. But it is only marginally
useful, if at all, for Linux. In addition to problems I have pointed
out already, it may not work at all when you move the binary compiled
by gcc to a different machine since gcc libraries may be installed a
different directory. -R only makes senses when the gcc installation
directory will always be the same for all machines over time.


H.J.