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Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #3: libtool


Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

 - fixes and preparations for building with libtool


Sorry, but I don't like this one.  Does libtool *really* need to run
ld directly?  That seems ill advised to me.  It's usually better to
just run gcc.


libtool needs to *know* what linker is being used -- but (at least on cygwin) it doesn't link using ld. It uses gcc.

But, libtool.m4 does cause configure.in/configure to test ld's characteristics during configure -- and you want those tests to be performed on the correct ld.

--Chuck



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