Re: libtool doesn't process LD_FLAGS arguments properly

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Hi Roman,

On 23 Nov 2010, at 19:13, Gavrilov, Roman wrote:
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> From: Gary V. Vaughan [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:18 PM
> To: Gavrilov, Roman
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> Subject: Re: libtool doesn't process LD_FLAGS arguments properly
> 
> On 23 Nov 2010, at 18:02, Gavrilov, Roman wrote:
> I'm using libtool to build xerces3 & Xquilla both use libtool to build
> the library.
>> It seems that libtool doesn't process arguments properly especially
> those that contain space in the arguments for example
> -Wl,rpath-link{SPACE}PATH.
> 
> Try:
> 
>  libtool ... -Wl,-rpath-link -Wl,PATH
> 
> or:
> 
>  libtool ... -Xlinker -rpath-link -Xlinker PATH
> 
> If PATH also has spaces in it, libtool will probably get confused (shell
> scripts are extremely difficult to get right with embedded spaces).  You
> can work around that by creating a soft-link to a new path with no
> spaces in it, and then pass *that* path in to libtool.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)
> 
> 
> Hi Gary,
> Libtool ... -Wl,-rpath-link -Wl,PATH does work, now libtool passes it to
> linker as is, but I don't think compiler would understand those
> arguments as it expects the PATH to follow -Wl,-rpath-link.

By the time the driver passes arguments to the linker, it will see, e.g.:

  /usr/bin/ld ... -rpath-link PATH

which is how this is supposed to work.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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