Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:59:43PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > >No, I was recommending that we keep the patches to pass through unknown > >options, since that leaves only one problematic case: unknown options with > >arguments. Before the patch

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: No, I was recommending that we keep the patches to pass through unknown options, since that leaves only one problematic case: unknown options with arguments. Before the patch *all* unknown options were stopped, and we would be back in that situation if w

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 06:30:41PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > But first: Do we revert the patches? -1 from me, +1 from Bob so far... I just submitted a patch to do this so +1 from me :) -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ Libtool mailing li

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Albert Chin wrote: >>> I am keen to come up with a low maintenance framework for tracking >>> these optioned arguments so that adding new ones is a snap. Searching >>> for the right case...esac and adding a new block is a PITA. >> >> >> So you're sayin

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Albert Chin wrote: I am keen to come up with a low maintenance framework for tracking these optioned arguments so that adding new ones is a snap. Searching for the right case...esac and adding a new block is a PITA. So you're saying we should not revert the patch? I think that

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:31PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >>Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through > >>libtool have to be mangled? So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and > >>un

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bob! Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through libtool >> have to be mangled? So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and unmangle it >> before >> calling the compiler... > > > Libtool is not currently in

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through libtool have to be mangled? So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and unmangle it before calling the compiler... Libtool is not currently in a position to mandate anything. The crux of the prob

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Albert, Albert Chin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through >>libtool have to be mangled? So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and >>unmangle it before calling the compiler... > > We shouldn't forc

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > The effect of the original patch was to reduce the maintenance > hassle of changing libtool after we discover a new option that > should be passed through, and then have everyone wait for the patch > to percolate through to a releas

Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Albert, Albert Chin wrote: > I submitted a patch recently to libtool-patches to pass through > unrecognized -[arg] and +[arg] switches: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-09/msg00034.html > > I just ran across a failure. It seems ok to pass through unrecognized > switch

Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD

2004-09-13 Thread Albert Chin
I submitted a patch recently to libtool-patches to pass through unrecognized -[arg] and +[arg] switches: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-09/msg00034.html I just ran across a failure. It seems ok to pass through unrecognized switches that do *not* take an argument. However,