bug#25882: gcc-wrapper doesn't handle response files

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> gcc-wrapper doesn't handle compiler/linker flags passed through
> response files.
>
> One package which recently started using such files is GHC (I believe
> since 7.10.3).  For this reason we currently need to patch it.
> However, the problem is with our tool chain wrapper and not with GHC
> itself.
>
> See discussion at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01981.html

Given that the GHC patch is so small, I have a slight preference for
keeping ld-wrapper unchanged and using the GHC patch.  To put it
differently, the GHC patch is smaller and less error-prone than the
changes that would need to be made in ld-wrapper.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.