Re: gnu linker/--no-as-needed?

[Harlan Stenn]

Peter Rosin writes:
> [Technically this is a Libtool question, but I'll answer here anyway]
> 
> ...
> 
> The last thing LT_PATH_LD does is to expand _LT_PATH_LD_GNU, which runs the
> linker with -v and looks for "GNU" or "with BFD" in the output and assumes
> GNU ld if that is found. The result is stored in $with_gnu_ld (and a cache
> variable).
> 
> If inside configure, I think it's fairly safe to just use $with_gnu_ld,
> that's probably not going to change anytime soon.
> 
> Outside configure, evaluate something like:
> 
> .../libtool --config | grep '^with_gnu_ld='

Thanks, Peter!

H