On Tuesday 03 April 2001 9:28 am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2001, "s_a_white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gary second suggestion worked after removing the back slashes:
>
> Really? Wow! This is very good news, indeed. I'm quite surprised!
> I suppose we could arrange for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to pre-pend
> '${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} `pwd`/libtool ' to ac_link, then?
>
> Modifying CC or CXX doesn't look like a good idea to me, if they're
> going to be AC_SUBSTed.
>
> > Btw, what would be your solution?
>
> Modifying ac_link such that it would compile without libtool, then
> link with it. I'm very surprised doing it in a single pass worked.
> Maybe by accident, just because it happened to pass the source
> filename through to the link command, which wouldn't have worked in
> case the linker were called directly, instead of using the compiler
> driver?
This sounds like a good idea. It would be cleaner if we could get autoconf
to publish an interface to allow us to do it proerly without mangling
incidental shell variables...
Cheers,
Gary.
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