[PATCH] ld: Override default linker emulation at configure time

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 04:38:31PM +0000, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> This commit adds a new configure option for ld that allows the default
> linker emulation to be selected at configure time.  The new option is:
> 
>     --with-default-linker-emulation=NAME
> 
> where NAME is the name of a linker emulation that would otherwise be
> valid for this target (as you'd pass to ld -mNAME).  The validity of
> NAME is checked at configure time.
> 
> The effect of this configure option is to make NAME the new default
> linker emulation.  The old default is still available in the list of
> alternative emulations and can be selected with the -m option to ld.

Do you have an example where this would be useful, and wouldn't be
better to configure for the correct target?

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM