* Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:35:59PM CET: > On 01/14/2010 12:10 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:43:49AM CET: > >> > >> Is that an oversight? I ask because in a cross-compilation > >> environment, getting CC and LD right are equally important. > > > > Sure, but why would $LD be more important in cross compilation setups > > than in native ones? The cross-compiler usually calls the right linker. > Because I'm encountering Makefiles that call $(LD) directly, and > default LD to "ld" unless you explicitly override it (and not setting > it to $(CC)). Then that is a simple portability issue you should take up with the authors of those Makefiles' input files. They should add something like AC_CHECK_TOOL([LD], [ld]) to their configure.ac, just like it is necessary to use AC_PROG_CC in order to use $CC. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
