On 01/14/2010 03:20 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:28:02PM CET: >> On 01/14/2010 12:49 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> * Philip A. Prindeville wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:35:59PM CET: >>>> 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. > >> And that will do the @LD@ substitution as well? > > Yes. > > And the *_TOOL will then cause the right thing to happen if you > ./configure --host=foo-bar-alias > > (i.e., try foo-bar-alias-ld first, just like with $CC). > > Cheers, > Ralf Would be nice if c.m4 contained that... _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
