Re: Issue starting Gorm, ProjectCenter, GWorkspace..etc on netbsd 5.0.2

[David Chisnall]

On 8 Nov 2010, at 09:45, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> freetype-config --libs
> 
> and it should return the right command options, but obviously it doesn't.

It looks like the problem is that it is providing the correct flags to pass to 
ld, but we are passing them to gcc.  There is some ugly hackish code in gcc to 
pass things that look like linker options to ld when they are not correctly 
prefixed with -W, but it is not always complete (and its exact behaviour varies 
between platforms / versions).

The correct thing for us to do would be to invoke ld directly, rather than via 
the compiler driver, but this would complicate GNUstep Make a lot (especially 
on Windows / Solaris / anywhere else that doesn't use GNU ld).  

David

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