Re: fix -R handling

[Robert Boehne x238]

Approved and checked in to CVS.

Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As suggested by Robert Boehne, I'm now submitting the libtool patches
> I've made for gettext and libiconv. My patches are relative to libtool-1.4.3;
> I hope it's easy enough for you to apply them to the current CVS (otherwise
> please make an 1.5 release and I'll port them to 1.5 and resubmit).
> 
> This patch was posted on a GNU mailing list by Albert Chin. It is essential
> for use of libtool, libintl etc. on all platforms where the linker doesn't
> understand the -R flag directly, like OSF/1. The -R flags from a .la's
> dependency_libs are taken into account by a different variable and must be
> ignored in this particular pass.
> 
> 2003-01-03  Albert Chin  <address@hidden>
> 
>         * ltmain.sh: Don't pass -R flags found in a .la's dependency_libs
>         variable directly down to the linker.
>         Reported by Tim Mooney <address@hidden>.
> 
> *** libtool-1.4.3/ltmain.sh     2002-10-23 04:26:24.000000000 +0200
> --- ltmain.sh   2003-02-18 21:53:41.000000000 +0100
> ***************
> *** 2084,2089 ****
> --- 2092,2098 ----
>           for deplib in $tmp_libs; do
>             case $deplib in
>             -L*) new_libs="$deplib $new_libs" ;;
> +           -R*) ;;
>             *)
>               case " $specialdeplibs " in
>               *" $deplib "*) new_libs="$deplib $new_libs" ;;
> 
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