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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2012-06-15 21:04:07 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2012-06-18 11:48:45 -0400
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More sophisticated attempt at detecting working linker options
On some platforms, the linker is perfectly happy to produce binaries that won't run if you give it the wrong set of flags. So when not cross-compiling, try to link-and-run a little test program, rather than just linking it. Possible fix for 6173.
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+ o Major bugfixes:
+ - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
+ where a bad combination of options completes successfully but
+ makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
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