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Re: patch for "g++-x.x" named compilers


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: patch for "g++-x.x" named compilers
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:08:18 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Albert Chin wrote:
> > All right then, here it is.  This patch replaces the guessing
> > of operation mode with an error message, and removes the variable
> > default_mode as it is no longer used.
> >
> > Ok to commit?
>
> This means that people upgrading from 1.3.x or 1.4.x to 1.5.x will
> have to retool how they invoke libtool. Do we really want to do this?

It is true that the examples in the existing libtool documentation are
making use of implicit mode detection.  In my opinion, this was a bad
original design decision, but since the documentation doesn't cover
the explicit mode option, I need to change the recommendation I made
just a minute ago.

Since the implicit mode detection is impossible to support properly, I
recommend that the libtool documentation be updated, and that libtool
issue a warning that the implicit mode is deprecated.

Bob
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