Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:16AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> - fixes and preparations for building with libtool >> >> > > Sorry, but I don't like this one. Does libtool *really* need to run > ld directly? That seems ill advised to me. It's usually better to > just run gcc. >
libtool needs to *know* what linker is being used -- but (at least on cygwin) it doesn't link using ld. It uses gcc. But, libtool.m4 does cause configure.in/configure to test ld's characteristics during configure -- and you want those tests to be performed on the correct ld. --Chuck
