Re: LD not precious?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:28:02PM CET:
> On 01/14/2010 12:49 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:35:59PM CET:
> >> Because I'm encountering Makefiles that call $(LD) directly, and
> >> default LD to "ld" unless you explicitly override it (and not setting
> >> it to $(CC)).
> > 
> > Then that is a simple portability issue you should take up with the
> > authors of those Makefiles' input files.  They should add something like
> >   AC_CHECK_TOOL([LD], [ld])
> > 
> > to their configure.ac, just like it is necessary to use AC_PROG_CC in
> > order to use $CC.

> And that will do the @LD@ substitution as well?

Yes.

And the *_TOOL will then cause the right thing to happen if you
  ./configure --host=foo-bar-alias

(i.e., try foo-bar-alias-ld first, just like with $CC).

Cheers,
Ralf