Re: About the use of ${wl} ...

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Kean,

* Kean Johnston wrote on Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:03:06PM CET:
> >Are you speaking of arguments given to `libtool' or given to `$CC'?
> $CC

OK.

> >If the latter: AFAIK not every compiler allows aggregation of
> >arguments after its variant of $wl.
> Ah. I thought it was pretty universal. If not then just ignore
> the suggestion. But I checked Irix, Solaris, HP-UX 10, HP-UX 11,
> Tru64 (and OSF/1), and of course any OS that uses GCC as its
> compiler. Also checked icc. They all do agregation. If even
> *IRIX* does it ... :)

Well, we might consider changing that, if we find no compiler that
disobeys this rule; I don't *know* offhand of a counter example, to be
honest.

We'd just need to check all Fortran, C, C++, compilers, gcj, Portland,
IBM.  Besides the OSes you mentioned, all w32 are missing; since a msvc
update is pending, that one should work as well, also windres.  Also
a couple of rarer used ones, plus of course a bit older releases.

So, do you still think this holds everywhere?

Cheers,
Ralf