On Monday 16 June 2008 10:28:30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:02 +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > [...] > > > Seriously, why is a wrapper for the compiler/linker required AT ALL if > > the calls to these tools are made from _generated_ files ? > > AFAIU the motivation of libtool to provide OS-independent (and toolchain > independent?) means to compile and link (etc.). > > > The generated files should just contain the appropriate calls for the > > respective commands. > > But these calls are - e.g. for shared libraries - not identical. The Gnu > toolchain is not everything. Yes, that's what I mean. The commands for calling the tools are generated. They should be generated appropriately for the respective toolchains (i.e. the generator must know how to call the different toolchains). No libtool/unitool/other wrappers required. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html