[libvirt] PATCH: configure.in should use 'ld' from $PATH for checking version-script syntax, not hardcode /usr/bin/ld

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:31:39PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:42:34PM -0800, Steve Yarmie wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I had a few minor patches which I had sent by using Bugzilla.
> > I believe I should have sent them to this list instead...
> > Here's the first (reference 531496  
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531496)
> >
> > configure.in should use 'ld' from $PATH for checking version-script  
> > syntax, not hard-coded in /usr/bin/ld
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> 
> > --- libvirt/configure.in	2009-11-08 20:57:08.194911693 -0800
> > +++ libvirt-ld/configure.in	2009-11-08 22:12:57.524840188 -0800
> > @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> >  AM_PROG_CC_C_O
> >  
> >  VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS=-Wl,--version-script=
> > -`/usr/bin/ld --help 2>&1 | grep -- --version-script >/dev/null` || \
> > +`ld --help 2>&1 | grep -- --version-script >/dev/null` || \
> >      VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS="-Wl,-M -Wl,"
> >  AC_SUBST(VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS)
> 
>   I'm not so sure about this honnestly
> The problem is that you don't know which linker gcc (or whatever CC is
> being used) will call. That can be hardcoded inside the gcc spec file
> for example if using a cross compiler.
> I have hit the issue with libxml2 in different ways because I reused
> that code in configure but I still don't know how to really address that
> properly.
> 
>  Using ld from $PATH might be a bit better in some case but it's really
> not garanteed to work in all cases, taht's painful.

I think this is incrementally better, because it means that if someone
does   PATH=/opt/other/gcc/install:$PATH ./configure, then the ld
check will probably work correctly, whereas current behaviour is 
guarenteed wrong.


Daniel
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