Re: -Xlinker and LDFLAGS

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

 >> This
 >> means that emacs has to be treated differently from other packages;
 >> for instance, you can't use an LDFLAGS value such as
 >> -Wl,-R/thing/to/add/to/run/path.

Why do you need the -Wl in practice?

[I agree that the current system is unfortunate and I recall not
understanding the prefix-args business.]

 EZ> Does it work to say "LDFLAGS=whatever ./configure", and then "make"?

That propagates a different default set to the Makefile and may affect
configured features, but it won't address this issue as such.