Re: binutils-2.15: followup on two 2.14 bugs unfixed

[Michael Deutschmann]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Nick Clifton wrote:
> As far as I can tell problem 1 has never been fixed, in either the
> binutils or the GCC sources.  Do you still have the email response to
> this bug report ?  If so please could you forward it to me, or else post
> the URL for it in the mailing list archive.

The mail.gnu.org archive doesn't go back that far.  I've enclosed the
messages I saw/sent.

---- Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden>
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> binutils-2.14: configure ignores LDFLAGS in environment
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> Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:54:34 -0700 (PDT)
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> The outer configure script in binutils-2.14 ignores the LDFLAGS
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> The problem seems to be in Makefile.in, which doesn't use the @LDFLAGS@
> substitution, instead always putting "LDFLAGS =" in the output Makefile.
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> Hi Alex,
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> Could you comment on this bug report please ?
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> > Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> writes:
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> > The outer configure script in binutils-2.14 ignores the LDFLAGS
> > environment variable.  Thus, custom LDFLAGS settings are not
> > respected when building this version of binutils.
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> > The problem seems to be in Makefile.in, which doesn't use the
> > @LDFLAGS@ substitution, instead always putting "LDFLAGS =" in the
> > output Makefile.
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> I notice that neither GCC nor binutils allows the setting of LDFLAGS
> at the top level.  Is there a reason for this ?
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> Cheers
>         Nick
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> On Jul  4, 2003, Nick Clifton <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Hi Alex,
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> > Could you comment on this bug report please ?
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> >> Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> The outer configure script in binutils-2.14 ignores the LDFLAGS
> >> environment variable.  Thus, custom LDFLAGS settings are not
> >> respected when building this version of binutils.
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> >> The problem seems to be in Makefile.in, which doesn't use the
> >> @LDFLAGS@ substitution, instead always putting "LDFLAGS =" in the
> >> output Makefile.
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> > I notice that neither GCC nor binutils allows the setting of LDFLAGS
> > at the top level.  Is there a reason for this ?
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> I can't see any reason either.  DJ, Nathan, can you?  If not, we
> should probably fix this such that LDFLAGS is propagated from the
> top-level configure to sub-configures.
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> Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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> Free Software Evangelist                Professional serial bug killer
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> Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:23:54 -0400
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> > I can't see any reason either.  DJ, Nathan, can you?  If not, we
> > should probably fix this such that LDFLAGS is propagated from the
> > top-level configure to sub-configures.
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> The toplevel make *does* set LDFLAGS in the environment for build and
> target sub-configures.  I see no reason why it shouldn't be done for
> host as well.
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> We do need to be careful of the cross-host case, though.
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