Re: allow specific flags through to the linker without modification

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 03:38  AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> Boehne, Robert wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> > I think this should be doable with -XCompiler, -Xlinker and 
> > -XCClinker.
> > > From the manual:
> >   You can pass link specific flags to the compiler driver using 
> > `-XCClinker flag'
> >   or pass linker flags with `-Wl,flag' and `-Xlinker flag'.  You can 
> > also pass
> >   compile specific flags using `-Wc,flag' and `-Xcompiler flag'. The 
> > intent is to allow anything that a user might want to have on the
> > compiler driver's invocation to be possible.  Can what you want to
> > achieve be done this way?
>
> Perhaps there should at least be a patch to make libtool warn when 
> it's ignoring options?

Indeed my only problem with it is that the behavior seems to have 
changed without warning, for darwin there are a lot of packages out 
there which just add "-framework Cocoa" etc to the Makefile when they 
detect darwin. libtool used to happily put this in the link line, now 
it does not, I got tired of telling people "use -Wl,-framework -Wl,foo".

A warning when libtool drops flags would also seem doable, let me look 
into it.

Peter