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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: CC can be a program name *with arguments* |
Date: | Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:30:26 -0600 (CST) |
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:I want, in a libtoolized project, ../configure CC='pgcc-78.9 -foo-option' to succeed in choosing Portland compiler options. No multiple compilers involved here.Libtool also lives as a stand-alone utility, which may be installed!I am going to stand up again (because I like being shot down) and ask if the "stand alone utility" bit is really necessary. I think I asked this before and was told to shut up :)
I doubt that anyone here told you to "shut up". We are more imaginative than that.
Libtool has been a "stand alone utility" since day one. That was its original focus. We don't control who uses it and can have no way of knowing who is using libtool stand-alone.
Libtool is a better linker than 'gcc' or 'ld' since it understands libtool dependency information. As a result, it may be used by simple programs/packages which don't even include so much as a configure script or for "proprietary" in-house uses where there is no need to "configure" the software.
Libtool does not handle changes to compiler switches very well, -m to gcc will confuse it, it certainly can not handle multiple compilers, why not just stop pretending that it is useful as a stand alone utility?
It is useful as a stand alone utility, but certainly the user must take care to use only the tools it was configured with.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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