Re: [RFC] Custom tag interface

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:55:32PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >
> > > This is currently a Request For Comments only, if people like this patch
> > > I'll make any necessary changes, write up some documentation for it and
> > > mail a proper patch later.
> >
> > Will these changes support multiple actual compilers for the same
> > language, or only aliases for the same compiler?  For example, a
> > Solaris user may use both GCC and Sun's commercial compiler and it
> > would be useful to for the installed libtool to support both.
>
> I don't think this is possible. How do you distinguish between Solaris
> 'cc' and GCC 'cc'?

Libtool provides a --tag=TAG option to allow selecting a tag.  I
believe that Automake is being updated to supply the --tag option.
Unfortunately, different named tags would be required in order to
select the compiler configuration.

If the user needs to differentiate between two compilers, they can
specify CC=/path/to/cc when configuring.

Bob
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