broken configury, testing for 'ld'

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 28, 2000, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> and then passes LD_FOR_TARGET as $LD to the libstdc++ configure.

If GCC has a different idea of what LD_FOR_TARGET is than what
LD_FOR_TARGET says, then it is LD_FOR_TARGET that should be fixed.

> Is this test really supposed to be checking for the ld used by GCC?

Yes but, following autoconf practice, this test (from libtool, BTW)
lets the user override it, under the assumption that, if the user
specifies it, s/he either knows better or s/he's overriding it on
purpose.

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