Re: [PATCH]: ld/Makefile.am

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>]

On Mar 12, 2000, Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> wrote:

> You want to use exactly the same tools to do the relink as the user
> specified when doing the original link.  So you want to use the same
> options, and the same environment variables.

Yup

> All the user has to know is that there's magic going on, but it
> behaves just as if the program was built when libtool was originally
> called.

In fact, the user shouldn't have to know that there's magic going on.
It's supposed to be totally transparent.  In this particular case, it
wasn't, and that's why I considered it a bug in libtool and fixed it
there.

Since yesterday, I've also been thinking that we should probably
also save PATH for the relink.  Otherwise, a change in the PATH could
cause another compiler driver to be used.

Since that's just a matter of adding one more variable to
variables_saved_for_relink, I won't bother to post a revised patch.
Ok to install?

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