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Re: PATCH: --sysroot-suffix
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:10:13PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > There seems to be plenty of precedent for --argument=value in GNU ld,
> > but the documentation says:
> >
> > Arguments to multiple-letter options must either be
> > separated from the option name by an equals sign, or be given as
> > separate arguments immediately following the option that
> > requires them. For example, --trace-symbol foo and
> > --trace-symbol=foo are equivalent. Unique abbreviations of
> > the names of multiple-letter options are accepted.
> >
> > I always use the space, personally, so I'd be pretty confused by the
> > dummy option handling; how about supporting that too?
>
> It's much harder to do that in gcc though, and it's not really
> consistent with gcc option handling, which usually enforces the
> "--arg=value" form. I thought it would be confusing to support
> "--arg value" in one but not the other, especially given that
> the interface is identical otherwise.
I think violating the ld manual's description is a bigger problem.
It says that "--sysroot=foo" and "--sysroot foo" should be
equivalent...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz