On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 29.10.2013 09:01 schrieb "Reinier Olislagers" <reinierolislag...@gmail.com>: > > On 28/10/2013 22:55, Sven Barth wrote: > > On 28.10.2013 18:54, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >> On 28/10/2013 17:58, Marco van de Voort wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 02:00:25PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:52:44PM -0300, silvioprog wrote: > >>>> It seems -XLA exists in the fpc sources but is neither documented nor > >>>> listed in fpc -h. > >>> > >>> XLO/XLA has been documented in the buildfaq since 2.0.4 times. > >>> Basically it is a simple system for substitutions and prioritization > >>> on the > >>> combined list of $linklibs for systems with flat linker namespaces. > >>> (read: > >>> linux and *BSD) > >> > >> So: woe betide anybody who expects fpc -h to actually spit out all > >> available command line options... with however short a description. > >> Shame. > > > > It was already mentioned sometimes ago that the help output of FPC is > > maintained by hand and does not necessarily always contain all available > > options. > > Thanks Sven. I understand and respect the "by hand" thing. > > What I find more problematic is not having all available options listed. > The compiler itself is the natural, most logical place to have an > overview of all options, which can then be further explained in other > documentation. > > If all possible options aren't there, where should people be looking for > a complete list? The compiler's source. This is the only location which is really up to date. (may sound harsh, but that's how it is...)
Strange as it may be, but I always peruse the compiler sources when updating the user manual for a release.
I haven't encountered the XLO/XLA options. Michael. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
