On Sep 8, 2009, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:17:28PM CEST:
>> The symptom was an incomplete link command line, resulting from a >> trailing «'» character in a -L flag added by libtool. > FWIW, it is not clear to me why this shouldn't have hurt you earlier. I was just as surprised. I couldn't find any particular change that would have exposed this latent problem. It *could* be related with the upgrade to a newer autoconf in GCC, which might in turn have started adding more variables to the config.status --recofigure command line. >> Here's what I'm going to installing in the GCC tree momentarily. I >> suggest libtool to adopt something along the same lines. > The patch is not ok for upstream Libtool, which unfortunately also has > to support other compilers that pretend to be GCC, but produce different > '-v -shared' output (ICC and PathScale are in this boat IIRC). ICC > won't match your changed grep, I think. Yes, it's ugly and they should > be punished for being an imperfect impersonation, but that's not > something you can tell users. :-) > Have you checked older GCC versions for the format? Not really, although I'm pretty sure this leading whitespace oddity has bugged me for a very long time. But given the above, it shouldn't really matter. > One possibility would be to grep out "Configured with" lines. I'll look > into it. That ought to work. Thanks! -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
