[Nix-dev] [RFC] Reliable compiler specification setting (at least include/lib dirs) through the process environment

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> skribis:

> Your patches look good! My biggest concern is how the ld wrapper behaves
> in the presence of response files. Have you tested that?

It surely doesn’t (yet?).

However, GCC does not pass “@file” arguments when it invokes ‘ld’, and
the bug report you mentioned¹ talks about GHC invoking ‘gcc’, not ‘ld’,
so I guess it’s fine to ignore response files in the ld wrapper.

Ludo’.

¹ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/a421e7bd4a28c69bded8b17888325e31554f61a1