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Re: pkg/45265



On 15. 8. 2012, at 11:17, Jörn Clausen 
<joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

+1

Also note that the aforementioned patch is no longer needed for the Sun linker 
that ships with Illumos.

-F


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