Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Append the extension to the executables properly

[KO Myung-Hun]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> KO Myung-Hun wrote:
>> Ah, I missed one. -Zexe is a linker flag. So -Zexe should be set to
>> LDFLAGS not CFLAGS.
> 
> emxgnu.doc (from emx09d) says the opposite, namely that the emx GCC supports
> the option -Zexe:
> 
> 2.5.8 -Zexe
> -----------
> 
> To avoid changing Unix-style makefiles, the additional GCC command
> line option -Zexe can be used.  If -Zexe is present, the linker (ld or
> emxomfld) automatically adds the .exe extension to the output file
> name and creates an empty file of that name (without .exe) to keep the
> make utility happy.  The output file name must not have an extension.
> See the descriptions of ld and emxomfld for details.
> 
> Bruno
> 

Read 'a linker flag' as 'a linker mode flag', please.

-Zexe has an effect only when linking not compiling. If CFLAGS as well
as LDFLAGS is used on linking, it's ok to set -Zexe to CFLAGS.

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