Re: Additional link flags for HP aCC and SGI CC

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Albert,

Albert Chin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:04:44PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
> The following patch will pass all -[arg] and +[arg] switches through.
> Is it safe?

On a mostly philosophical point, I think that allowing arguments that
libtool doesn't recognize through to the compiler removes some of the
advantages that libtool brings to a project: it is the thin end of the
wedge to starting to put non-portable flags into Makefile.am.

Besides, you can already do this, but at the moment you have to do it
consciously and say `-Xcompiler -peculiar-flag-for-my-compiler', which
at least forces the user to acknowledge that they are going behind
libtool's back, so it will be hardly surprising to them if libtool gets
confused later on...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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