Re: Additional link flags for HP aCC and SGI CC

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:39:02PM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:09:19PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>Besides, you can already do this, but at the moment you have to do it
> >>consciously and say `-Xcompiler -peculiar-flag-for-my-compiler', which
> >>at least forces the user to acknowledge that they are going behind
> >>libtool's back, so it will be hardly surprising to them if libtool gets
> >>confused later on...
> >
> >
> >This doesn't help during ./configure. This is the crux of the problem.
> 
> Yes, I agree, it forces the user to add these flags by editing a 
> Makefile.in or .am. Makes me wonder if we could have LT_CFLAGS and 
> LT_LDFLAGS (or some such), and have automake use these flags if libtool is 
> involved in the compile/link.
> 
> I'll stop thinking out loud now though.

The real solution is to have ./configure use libtool as the compiler.

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albert chin (address@hidden)