Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> The effect of the original patch was to reduce the maintenance
> hassle of changing libtool after we discover a new option that
> should be passed through, and then have everyone wait for the patch
> to percolate through to a release. With that in mind, it would be a
> shame to have to revert the patches now.
> 
> Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through
> libtool have to be mangled?  So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and
> unmangle it before calling the compiler...

We shouldn't force the users to change their behavior though.

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albert chin (address@hidden)