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