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Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used? |
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:48:00 -0700 |
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Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
> "Dr. David Kirkby" <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'd rather not use libtool - I don't want to learn yet another
>> tool. Especially since it has already caused me some grief on Solaris.
>
> I used to feel that way, but I'm personally switching everything over to
> it, particularly as I have access to fewer and fewer platforms myself. I
> don't think it provides as much portability in some cases as hand-tuned
> linker flags, but unless one has access to a ton of different systems,
> it's hard to hand-tune the flags in all the ways needed.
>
> However, lintian still doesn't solve all the problems. For example, all
> the flags I mentioned in my previous message are ones that lintian has no
> API for, so you still have to figure out what flags to pass to the
> underlying linker. Lintian's Autoconf probes do help a bit because
> lintian has to check for things like whether the GNU linker is in use
> itself.
>
> You could also steal code from lintian's Autoconf probes without using it
> directly. I've done that before for some projects.
I think that many (but perhaps not all) of the instances of
"lintian" above should actually refer to "libtool".
--
"Long noun chains don't automatically imply security."
--Bruce Schneier
- How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/06
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Philip Herron, 2009/08/06
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Russ Allbery, 2009/08/06
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/06
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Russ Allbery, 2009/08/06
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/08/07
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/07
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Richard Ash, 2009/08/08
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/09
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- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/09
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- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Dr. David Kirkby, 2009/08/10
- Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/08/10