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Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD
From: |
Albert Chin |
Subject: |
Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:26:57 -0500 |
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:29:31PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >>Maybe we could mandate that option arguments to be passed through
> >>libtool have to be mangled? So we'd accept, say, -Woff=all and
> >>unmangle it before calling the compiler...
> >
> > We shouldn't force the users to change their behavior though.
>
> Okay. We can do both: libtool will keep a list of options it knows
> about (along with details of whether they accept arguments), and pass
> them through unchanged. As an interrim for users that want to get
> options with arguments to the compiler with current libtool, they can
> use a mangled format that will nag them to report their mangling usage
> to bug-libtool for correction in the next release, but pass the unmangled
> option to the compiler. Hopefully, the list of argument bearing options
> that libtool needs to know about is reasonably small and slow changing.
>
> I am keen to come up with a low maintenance framework for tracking
> these optioned arguments so that adding new ones is a snap. Searching
> for the right case...esac and adding a new block is a PITA.
So you're saying we should not revert the patch? I think that's the
most maintainable solution. Libtool has lived without the patch for
this long. Adding a case statement to pass through known options will
solve the problem of passing through 64-bit flags which should get us
better behavior than before. Nirvana, passing through all unknown
options, seems impossible.
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD,
Albert Chin <=
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/14
- Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Albert Chin, 2004/09/14
Re: Recent patch to pass through unrecognized options in CVS HEAD, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/09/14