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Re: environment variables in ld scripts

From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: environment variables in ld scripts
Date	2013-04-23 14:50 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kl5sd7$gjm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 23.4.13 3:31 , Jay Braun wrote:
> I have inherited an application that makes extensive use of ld scripts.  The former developer hard-coded many absolute directory paths into these scripts, e.g.:
>
> -L /home/harold/libs -( -lnwiss -lr -)
> @/home/harold/libs lib.ld
>
> I would like to use environment variables so that I can use, say /home/jay/ rather than /home/harold.  So I'll define:
>
> export APP_LIBS=/home/jay/libs
>
> but neither of the following works:
>
> -L $APP_LIBS -( -lnwiss -lr -)
> @$APP_LIBS lib.ld
>
> Is there a special notation for employing environment variables in ld scripts?

This seems more as the shell script to start ld (or maybe even gcc), 
than the ld script.

Please check.

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Tauno Voipio

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environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 17:31 -0700
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-04-23 14:50 +0300
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2013-04-23 08:34 -0700
    Re: environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 12:56 -0700
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 12:56 -0700

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