Re: IRIX and -LANG flags

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:46:43PM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This following was reported on the Debian BTS:
> 
> File: /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh
> 
>       # The native IRIX linker understands -LANG:*, -LIST:* and -LNO:*
>       # so, if we see these flags be careful not to treat them like -L
>       -L[A-Z][A-Z]*:*)
>         case $with_gcc/$host in
>         no/*-*-irix* | no/*-*-nonstopux*)
>           compile_command="$compile_command $arg"
>           finalize_command="$finalize_command $arg"
>           ;;
>         esac
>         continue
>         ;;
> 
>  when compiling with gcc, $with_gcc is set to yes.  when compiling with
>  the MIPSpro compiler collection, $with_gcc is empty, not "no".  The
>  effect is that libtool removes all the -LANG options from the compiler
>  line.
> 
> Is this still a problem with libtool 1.4.2 and libtool HEAD?

HEAD seems to have this fixed:
      -L[A-Z][A-Z]*:*)
        case $with_gcc/$host in
        no/*-*-irix* | /*-*-irix*)

I think the note above is correct though and we could get away with:
      -L[A-Z][A-Z]*:*)
        case $with_gcc/$host in
        /*-*-irix*)

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albert chin (address@hidden)