Re: inherited linker flags misses linker flags on darwin

[Christoph Egger]

> > Christoph Egger wrote:
> > | Hi!
> > |
> > |
> > | Say you have the following Makefile.am:
> > |
> > | -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | lib_LTLIBRARIS = foo.la
> > |
> > | foo_la_SOURCES = foo1.c foo2.c
> > | foo_la_LDFLAGS = -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker ApplicationServices \
> > |                  -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker Carbon
> > | -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > |
> > | This generates a convinience libtool library.
> > |
> > | The wrong thing here is the 'inherited_linker_flags' variable
> > | in the file foo.la just holds a blank rather
> > | -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker ApplicationServices -Xlinker -framework
> > | -Xlinker Carbon
> > |
> > | Impacted are all Darwin versions.
> > 
> > What happens if you remove the "-Xlinker"s ?
> 
> Hey, then 'inherited_linker_flags' contains
>   -framework ApplicationServices -framework Carbon
> 
> which is right.

But there is something going wrong later, when I link a program
against libfoo.la

While inherited_linker_flags contains the right values, libtool
malforms them. The linker then see's this:

Carbon ApplicationServices -framework

The linker (of course) says then:

Carbon: No such file or directory
ApplicationServices: No such file or directory
[Other errors]

> 
> > I will be away for two weeks starting in about 9 hours, so I may
> > not get
> > back to you on this for a little while, sorry.
> 
> Well, have a nice time.
> 

-- 
Greetings,

Christoph

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