Re: Fixing Imake

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:44:29PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Huh... oddly enough, -L/lib/automode.o compiled and worked on textmode
>mounts, whereas leaving off the lib completely would cause imake to choke at
>the first end of line it reached in a makefile.
>
>Compilation of imake failed when I set BootstrapCFlags to /lib/automode.o,
>as BootstrapCFlags does not get included on the end of the compilation line
>for imake.exe; rather, BootstrapCFlags gets included between other flags,
>etc.
>
>Changing BootstrapCFlags to -l/lib/automode.o worked fine, just
>like -L/lib/automode.o, so would that be considered correct?

I have no idea why either of those would work.  If they do work, it
is undoubtedly a bug in ld and not something that you should rely on.

cgf