On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:07 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Why? We don't demand a working plugin. Indeed, we disable the use of > the plugin if we find a linker that doesn't support it. We just don't > account for the possibility of finding a linker that supports plugins, > but that doesn't support the one we'll build later.
If this is the preferred solution, then having configure check the 64-bitness of ld and turning off the plugin altogether on mismatches sounds like a reasonable course of action to me.
