[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from?

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:28:32 -0500


    Guido> I'm curious if perhaps Apple's loader (which started this)
    Guido> interprets -L as meaning both -L and -R in traditional Unix?

Damned if I could tell by reading the ld(1) manpage.  The change I checked
in to unixccompiler.py returns -L only because I figured "-L<dir>" would be
innocuous, not because I expected it to have "-R<dir>" semantics.

I'll ask around on the Pythonmac-SIG.

Skip