On 01/14/2010 12:49 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * 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 And that will do the @LD@ substitution as well? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
