On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:58:53PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >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.
How does libtool determine the correct linker? I have never had any problems building things. I would think that if libtool needed to be told to use i686-pc-cygwin-ld I would have noticed that by now. cgf
