Re: Additional link flags for HP aCC and SGI CC

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:09:19PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:04:44PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
> > The following patch will pass all -[arg] and +[arg] switches through.
> > Is it safe?
> 
> On a mostly philosophical point, I think that allowing arguments that
> libtool doesn't recognize through to the compiler removes some of the
> advantages that libtool brings to a project: it is the thin end of the
> wedge to starting to put non-portable flags into Makefile.am.
> 
> Besides, you can already do this, but at the moment you have to do it
> consciously and say `-Xcompiler -peculiar-flag-for-my-compiler', which
> at least forces the user to acknowledge that they are going behind
> libtool's back, so it will be hardly surprising to them if libtool gets
> confused later on...

This doesn't help during ./configure. This is the crux of the problem.

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albert chin (address@hidden)