Re: pkg/45265

[Jörn Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>, 
solaris-pkg-people%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/45265
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:17:00 +0200

 On 15.08.12 00:15, David Holland wrote:
 >   The original report says it's necessary when using the Sun linker;
 >   shouldn't part of the conditional test for that?
 
 If you find a method to test for the linker, you'd have solved a long 
 standing problem in a lot of packages. There are several places like 
 this, where a test for the compiler is actually used to guess the linker.
 
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