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Re: discard “Configured with” line from gcc -v output
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Alexandre Oliva |
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Re: discard “Configured with” line from gcc -v output |
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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:27:17 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Sep 8, 2009, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:17:28PM CEST:
>> The symptom was an incomplete link command line, resulting from a
>> trailing «'» character in a -L flag added by libtool.
> FWIW, it is not clear to me why this shouldn't have hurt you earlier.
I was just as surprised. I couldn't find any particular change that
would have exposed this latent problem.
It *could* be related with the upgrade to a newer autoconf in GCC, which
might in turn have started adding more variables to the config.status
--recofigure command line.
>> Here's what I'm going to installing in the GCC tree momentarily. I
>> suggest libtool to adopt something along the same lines.
> The patch is not ok for upstream Libtool, which unfortunately also has
> to support other compilers that pretend to be GCC, but produce different
> '-v -shared' output (ICC and PathScale are in this boat IIRC). ICC
> won't match your changed grep, I think. Yes, it's ugly and they should
> be punished for being an imperfect impersonation, but that's not
> something you can tell users.
:-)
> Have you checked older GCC versions for the format?
Not really, although I'm pretty sure this leading whitespace oddity has
bugged me for a very long time. But given the above, it shouldn't
really matter.
> One possibility would be to grep out "Configured with" lines. I'll look
> into it.
That ought to work. Thanks!
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