In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > >> svn) and probably hasn't worked correctly in 10 years or so (if it > >> ever worked really correctly, given that adding -Xd to OPT never > >> never > >> was correct). > > > > It was the best that could be done then. > > The best that could have been done was to add -Xd to CROSSOPT, not to > OPT.
IIRC that didn't exist outside cycle then. > > And it did work, because back then, > > with the exception of darwin, nothing run on host linked to libc, > > thus not > > needing those paths. That has only changed very recently. > > You're right. But in that case I don't understand why -Xt was also > present, given that this option only applies to C libraries as well. Neither do I. It is not an option that I regularly use. Maybe it was a workaround for the problems where later -Xr (rlink-path) was added for. IOW cross-shared linking wasn't so easy then. Anyway, I'll update and play with it in the coming times. I had already planned to spend some time on the buildfaq, and this is good training. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
