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On 2023-01-28 17:46, J.W. Jagersma wrote:
> On 2023-01-28 15:12, Ozkan Sezer (sezeroz AT gmail DOT com) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> OK, patch reverted,
>>
>>>> As for documentation, is the following good? Better wording?
>>>
>>> The text is fine, but the markup could be improved:
>>>
>>>> +@item
>>>> +Linking to gcc-provided libraries like libgcc may need special care,
>>>
>>> libgcc should be in @file
>>>
>>>> +because the linker may have no idea where libgcc.a is. One solution
>>>
>>> libgcc.a likewise
>>>
>>>> +to that when using a makefile is, retrieving the libgcc directory and
>>>> +combining it with -L before -lgcc:
>>>
>>> "-L" and "-lgcc" are command-line options, so the suitable markup for
>>> them is @option.
>>
>> Documentation patch is applied as
>> https://www.delorie.com/bin/cvsweb.cgi/djgpp/src/dxe/dxegen.txi.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> I don't really like this "solution", it just makes it the user's problem.
> 
> How likely is it that someone uses the latest version of dxe3gen, but is
> somehow stuck with such an ancient (nearly 25 years old) version of gcc?  At
> some point you'll just have to say, for gcc < X, use dxe3gen Y.
> 
> For DXE_LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that can be added easily as -L dir, and won't break
> anything.  But not having this set should not be an error.
> 
> For DJDIR, there is only one valid place it can point to, and gcc already knows
> where to find it.  I don't think a native gcc even works without DJDIR set.  So
> it doesn't make sense to also parse it in dxe3gen.

Also, with removing DXE_LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the concern was that it could break
existing makefiles.  But now the accepted solution is... to break existing
makefiles?  That logic is hard to follow.