[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:34:58 -0400

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" would be innocuous, not because I expected it to have "-R" 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/)