From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22152 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2010 01:42:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 22037 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2010 01:42:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx20.gnu.org (HELO mx20.gnu.org) (199.232.41.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:42:41 +0000 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSKv1-0000bs-81 for gcc@gcc.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:42:39 -0500 Received: (qmail 29985 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2010 01:42:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 6 Jan 2010 01:42:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Roland McGrath Cc: Matthias Klose , Ian Lance Taylor , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Support --enable-gold=both --with-linker=[bfd|gold] Message-ID: <20100106014224.GA26233@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Roland McGrath , Matthias Klose , Ian Lance Taylor , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <20091102220634.GA21976@lucon.org> <6dc9ffc80911031419k53995085ib14214227979a55e@mail.gmail.com> <20091103222302.8D1AD71C3@magilla.sf.frob.com> <6dc9ffc80911031528v73b398f1s98e76a85baf9f56b@mail.gmail.com> <20100105211155.584FB1F0@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20100105225955.1126A1F0@magilla.sf.frob.com> <4B43D0A4.2070403@ubuntu.com> <20100106010124.87EE57B08@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100106010124.87EE57B08@magilla.sf.frob.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 05:01:24PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > why not make this more explicit by adding an option --ld which is > > directly understood by the gcc driver? > > Feel free to send some gcc patches. I see no point in this. > We have -Wl. I deal with a lot of host systems where shell scripts aren't a viable option for ld. Why make everyone write the wrapper script? Makes sense to me to have gcc decide. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery