On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Behalf Of Denys Vlasenko
>> Sent: den 29 oktober 2008 02:03
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [patch] scripts/Makefile.lib
>>
>> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 20:58, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
>> > Would this patch be acceptable?
>> >
>> > Convert from '-Wl,-<option>' (used to give specific gcc link options)
>> > to direct link '-<option>'.
>> >
>> > Index: scripts/Makefile.lib
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- scripts/Makefile.lib      (revision 22830)
>> > +++ scripts/Makefile.lib      (working copy)
>> > @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
>> >  cpp_flags      = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(__cpp_flags)
>> >
>> >  # TODO: seems to be a wrong thing to do! LDFLAGS contains gcc's flags!
>> > -ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
>> > +ld_flags       = $(filter-out -Wl$(comma)%,$(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS))
>> >
>> >  # Finds the multi-part object the current object will be linked into
>> >  modname-multi = $(sort $(foreach m,$(multi-used),\
>>
>>
>> What case does it fix?
>> --
>> vda
>
>It fixes the fact that $(LD_FLAGS) may contain linker directives specified

This would be a misconfiguration which you should fix instead of
papering over it imo.

>as -Wl,<ld option>, which are intended to be passed through gcc. However,
>$(ld_flags) is used with ld and it wants its options without the -Wl,
>prefix. The TODO comment above should at the same time be replaced with
>something like:
>
># Remove the -Wl, prefix from linker options normally passed through gcc
>
>//Peter
>
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