RE: Libtool-patches Digest, Vol 3, Issue 17

[Boehne, Robert]

Ben,

By "linker" I am referring to ld, the compiler driver "cc" will
call the linker (ld) to actually do the linking.  As Alexandre pointed
out, the difference between $linker_flags and $compiler_flags is that
flags that should be passed to ld get -Wl, (or the appropriate alternative)
appended to them so that ld (the linker) will interpret them.
Perhaps $linker_flags should have been called $ld_flags but that
assumes the linker is always "ld".

Thanks,

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hines [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:13 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Libtool-patches Digest, Vol 3, Issue 17



On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:03  AM, 
address@hidden wrote:

> By design, linker_flags should be passed to the linker,
>

Yes, And as Peter said, "CC" IS the LINKER on DARWIN. :) Therefore, 
they should be passed, by your own logic. :) (you just told him he 
could remove them!)

I can't see how this patch will work at all, because now the 
linker_flags don't get used at all when linking on darwin. Thats OK to 
check in by your logic? There is no reason to even test it, it 
obviously won't work.

-Ben



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