From: Glenn Morris Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 18:14:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Restore portions of my comment, which I found less clear after copyedits X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~173^2^2~42^2~45^2~387^2~1662^2~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7646461cf8903ae65546025c74d6f6aac577461;p=emacs.git Restore portions of my comment, which I found less clear after copyedits --- diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index a9ea5d7a58f..ab2e48b6f0f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1026,10 +1026,13 @@ dnl (Don't use `-z nocombreloc' as -z takes no arg on Irix.) dnl Treat GCC specially since it just gives a non-fatal `unrecognized option' dnl if not built to support GNU ld. -dnl Adding -znocombreloc to LDFLAGS rather than LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS is: -dnl * inappropriate, as LDFLAGS is a build option but this is essential. See: +dnl For a long time, -znocombreloc was added to LDFLAGS rather than +dnl LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS. That is: +dnl * inappropriate, as LDFLAGS is a user option but this is essential. +dnl Eg "make LDFLAGS=... all" could run into problems, dnl http://bugs.debian.org/684788 -dnl * unnecessary, since temacs is the only thing that actually needs it. See: +dnl * unnecessary, since temacs is the only thing that actually needs it. +dnl Indeed this is where it was originally, prior to: dnl http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2004-03/msg00170.html late_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" if test x$GCC = xyes; then