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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD |
Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:37:29 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
I am keen to come up with a low maintenance framework for tracking these optioned arguments so that adding new ones is a snap. Searching for the right case...esac and adding a new block is a PITA.So you're saying we should not revert the patch? I think that's the most maintainable solution. Libtool has lived without the patch for this long. Adding a case statement to pass through known options will solve the problem of passing through 64-bit flags which should get us better behavior than before. Nirvana, passing through all unknown options, seems impossible.
I recommend that the patch be reverted. A generic mechanism can be added to specify which options should be passed, and how many arguments the option requires. This may be more difficult to do efficiently from a shell script than when using a compiled language. In order to ease maintenance, part of the libtool script can be automatically generated from an options configuration file.
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