[Ecls-list] feature request: a separate variable for linker command

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

2007/6/29, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs.tamu.edu>:
>   Et the moment, ECL uses c::*cc* -- a command to invoke the C compiler --
> as a command to invoke the linker.  That works for many cases. However,
> for situations where the linker command needs to be different from
> that of the C compiler, one our of luck.  A case in point is use of
> libtool to invoke the linker: in that case, one really wants something like:
>
>     libtool --mode=link cc ...
>
> Thoughts?

Really, if you want to use libtool you really will need more than just
a fresh new variable in ECL. You will need to hack ECL itself. I will
then gladly accept any patches regarding this, but right now it is
kind of cutting the grass before the seeds are planted.

Juanjo

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