Re: [PATCH] [mingw|cygwin] Modify cwrapper to invoke target directly.

[Eric Blake]

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According to Charles Wilson on 5/20/2008 10:23 PM:
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| Counter-proposal: remove "--" handling in the wrapper, but don't worry
| about requiring "leading" options only.  Instead, the wrapper just eats
| --${LTWRAPPER_OPTION_NAMESPACE}-* options (and their arguments) wherever
| they appear in the command line.  However, allow the end-developer to
| set an environment variable (or a configure option?) to change what that
| prefix is.

Slightly better, but what about:

m4 --some-option --lt-...

You don't know whether --some-option takes an argument, and the developer
really intended to pass the literal string --lt-... as the argument to
that option, or if --some-option takes no argument, so --lt-... is a true
wrapper option.  I'd really feel more comfortable if all --lt-* were
leading, since otherwise the wrapper can't distinguish options from option
arguments.

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| That way, if package X insists on having options in the --lt-*
| namespace, package X's configure.ac could specify that, for this
| package, the magic wrapper namespace is --libtool-wrapper-* or whatever.

Having a configurable wrapper namespace sounds nice, but not mandatory.

|
| See above, and sorry for the trouble.

It's partly my fault, for suggesting it without realizing the ramifications

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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