[LinuxBIOS] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 issue as promised...

[Marc Karasek]

Think this got lost in the noise..

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Marc Karasek wrote:
> Here is the patch with the ld option check as well. 
>
> I had to make a few changes to Ron's original patch.  One of the 
> problems was that CFLAGS was being set as a := in the Makefile and was 
> overwriting the += that was in Makefile.settings.  So I added 
> DISTRO_CFLAGS and DISTRO_LFLAGS for the two additonal flags.  The 
> reason for two was that the build-id option is only used during 
> linking and generated warnings if used on a compile line and was not 
> being pulled in for the linker lines.  These defines were added to the 
> appropriate places in the Makefile via the Config.lb file.
>
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> ron minnich wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 2008 10:33 AM, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I could add the check to this patch (using awk to check ld) to add the
>>> -Wl option to the EXTRA_CFLAGS.
>>>     
>>
>> cool! I'll take it and add it.
>>
>> ron
>>