* Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:28:02PM CET: > On 01/14/2010 12:49 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:35:59PM CET: > >> Because I'm encountering Makefiles that call $(LD) directly, and > >> default LD to "ld" unless you explicitly override it (and not setting > >> it to $(CC)). > > > > Then that is a simple portability issue you should take up with the > > authors of those Makefiles' input files. They should add something like > > AC_CHECK_TOOL([LD], [ld]) > > > > to their configure.ac, just like it is necessary to use AC_PROG_CC in > > order to use $CC.
> And that will do the @LD@ substitution as well? Yes. And the *_TOOL will then cause the right thing to happen if you ./configure --host=foo-bar-alias (i.e., try foo-bar-alias-ld first, just like with $CC). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
