Re: LD not precious?

[Philip A. Prindeville]

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...