Re: handling of -B with libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:34:31PM CEST:
> 
> -Bstatic would be valid for the compiler driver regardless ... if you had a 
> directory in $PWD named "static" ...

If you have a directory named static and used that as argument for -B,
you deserve trouble.  Also, isn't -B to be fed an absolute path?

> unless you mean invoking `ld` directly ?  -B to the compiler driver and -B to 
> the linker have very diff meanings ...

Sure.  But in general, libtool may invoke either the compiler driver or
the linker directly.  It doesn't do that for GCC any more, I think, but
it used to.

> i'm trying to use:
> LDFLAGS = -B/some/path
> in the build environment and things break when libtool is involved and it 
> tries to link a shared library because it strips this -B flag ...

You can work around it using
  -Wc,-B/some/path
or
  -Xcompiler -B/some/path
for now.

Cheers,
Ralf