Re: Defining a variable for direct ld(1) flags?

Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:14:30 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general,gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/15/26 19:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2026-01-16 00:24, Florian Weimer wrote:
> [...]
>> ASFLAGS has the ambiguity because the default make rules use it with
>> both AS (for .s) and CC and (.S), which makes ASFLAGS rather useless.
> I have seen traces of "CCASFLAGS" in automake, so I guess someone thought of
> that already. And that would speak towards getting a CCLDFLAGS variable.

I second the motion.  Then the community can start towards paying down 
the enormous technical debt that has accumulated from conflating that 
into LDFLAGS.


-- Jacob