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

[Guido van Rossum]

>     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.

Why did you check it in to Python 2.3 but not to 2.2.2?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)