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Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used?
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Russ Allbery |
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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 20:04:54 -0700 |
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Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> writes:
> Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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".
Ack, yes, sorry. *sigh* Finger macro.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- 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
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