Re: allow specific flags through to the linker without modification

[Aaron Ucko]

Benjamin Reed <address@hidden> writes:

> That seems reasonable to me, but I do think *something* needs to
> change, the current behaviour is very confusing.  Libtool seems to
> just drop options on the ground, and unless you're watching the
> libtool output it's not immediately obvious until something breaks.

Agreed.  Really, why not just *allow* unrecognized options?  The user
surely supplied them for a reason, and not all compilers have -Wl,
equivalents.  (GCC is not an option when you need ABI compatibility
with certain vendor C++ compilers, and one can't effectively pass
-XCClinker to configure.)