Re: [MLB] Tag inferrence code needs improving

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 26, 2000, Nick Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:

> The build system of a package I was trying to build. This build system would
> use /usr/bin/cc and libtool would use cc as determined by configure.

The package should have create its own libtool script, properly
configured for whatever compilers it's going to use.

> The suggestion is that the configure system of libtool searches the
> system for every c, c++, and gcj-like compiler and adds tags for
> each. OR libtool configure is told that they some are equivalent and
> uses and alias concept.

So you're talking about the libtool script installed by the libtool
package, right?  Ok, I see the point now.  Yes, aliases would be a
nice addition, and so might be searching for additional compilers.

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