Re: [PATCH] Fix detecting ld version with crosstool-NG (to fix symbol exporting)

[Brooks Moses]

On 07/03/2012 06:56 AM, Olivier Blin wrote:
> ld from crosstool-NG reports a version string with an extra version:
> GNU ld (crosstool-NG 1.13.0) 2.21.1
>
> This made libtool assume that the ld version was the crosstool-NG
> version (1.13.0) instead of the real ld version (2.21.1).
>
> To fix the ld version string, this patch filters out any string
> between parentheses that is followed by a space.

Committed.  Thanks!  (I suspect we were also running into this; our internal 
builds of ld and gold also have version numbers embedded in the 
parenthetical note.)

If you could give the updated libtool.m4 file a test to make sure it's 
working as expected, I'd appreciate it.

- Brooks