Re: New flag -XCClinker

[Bob Friesenhahn]

This patch seems ok to me.

Bob

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Boehne, Robert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've found that -Xlinker and -Xcompiler -Wl, && -Wc,
> were not quite enough.  The problem appeared when I
> needed to make sure a linking flag was passed to the
> C++ compiler driver as-is.  Without this patch, the only
> way I could get these flags in the right place was to
> set CXX to "$CXX -flag1 -flag2" and that broke a few
> configure tests.  In general, I think non-C compilers
> need a flag like this when it should be passed at link
> time to the compiler driver.
>
> This patch adds the flag -XCClinker which behaves just like
> -Xlinker but does not append ${wl} to the flag.  Documentation
> is also updated.  I've tested the patch, and found no regressions.
>
> Ok to commit?
>
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