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Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages
From: |
Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages |
Date: |
05 Jul 2001 21:38:16 -0600 |
>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
Tom> I think the best fix is to go back to conditionally using $(EXEEXT).
adl> Wow, this is really different from any fix I would have
adl> imagined. (From my point of view Automake should not emit a
adl> link rule for unknown languages, but maybe that would be a
adl> feature and it's not time for this.)
I think it's hard to classify this one. Historically automake just
went ahead and generated a rule unless the user did it.
The user could also affect it by setting program_LINK (this is still
undocumented! I'll fix) if he wanted most of the rule.
I'm inclined to keep doing this, as it is backwards-compatible.
Also it doesn't seem obviously wrong. Many times an unknown extension
is just translated to C and using the "C linker" is appropriate.
adl> I see $seen_exeext is set to 1 when Automake encounter
adl> AC_EXEEXT. AC_EXEEXT has been obsoleted in Autoconf 2.50 which
adl> now always compute EXEEXT. Isn't this why Automake
adl> unconditionnaly used $(EXEEXT) ?
Yes. And this means that if you are using autoconf 2.50 then you must
write the target as `prog$(EXEEXT)'. Anything else would be
incorrect, I think. I've made a note so that I'll be sure to document
this. This is a bit ugly. Do you think there is something better?
Tom
- superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/07/04
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tom Tromey, 2001/07/04
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/07/05
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages,
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2001/07/06
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tom Tromey, 2001/07/14
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tim Van Holder, 2001/07/15
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tom Tromey, 2001/07/18
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tim Van Holder, 2001/07/19
- Re: superfluous link rule for unknown languages, Tom Tromey, 2001/07/21